UCLA department of epidemiology professor Dr. Anne Rimoin provides professional analysis of the monkeypox and the common ways it can spread from person to person, on ‘Fox News Live.’ Swedish health authorities announced the first case of the highly-infectious mpox just a day after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency for the outbreaks in Africa.
In this case, a person was infected during a stay in the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of (the more infectious mpox formerly known as monkeypox)," the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced on Thursday. Magnus Gisslen, a state epidemiologist with the Swedish health agency , said the person had been treated and given "rules of conduct." "The fact that a patient with mpox is treated in the country does not affect the risk to the general population," Swedish officials said.
MPOX DECLARED PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY IN AFRICA AS AUTHORITIES BATTLE MULTIPLE VARIANTS Swedish state epidemiologist Magnus Gisslén speaks during a press conference Thursday regarding mpox, in Stockholm. (Fredrik Sandberg/TT News Agency via AP) The announcement of an infected resident in the Scandinavian country comes just a day after WHO declared the mpox outbreak a global emergency. The U.
N. health agency said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths this year, which already exceed last year's figures. So far, more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo.
Mpox on a child in Nigeria. (Nigeria Centre for.
