This is discouraging, even as it seems the few suspected cases of Ebola in Bas-Uélé, DRC have turned up negative for that far more lethal virus.
Even so, the Ib clade of Mpox runs at about a 10 percent fatality rate in sub-Saharan Africa. No word yet — on the prognosis for the case in Sweden — but it is reported to be of the more contagious variety. So WHO has declared an emergency — to arrest it all, before it leaps to additional continents, as Ebola did in 2022 — reaching both Israel, and Pakistan. Here’s the latest:
…Mpox is a viral infection that spreads through close contact. It’s classified into two distinct viral groups, called clades: clade I and clade II.
The strain that spread widely in 2022 and prompted the WHO’s first public health emergency declaration was a version of clade II. The current outbreak, however, is a version of clade I, which is “likely to be associated with a higher risk of a more severe course of disease and higher mortality,” according to the Public Health Agency of Sweden….
The version of clade I responsible for the outbreak in Congo also appears to be fairly transmissible via routine close contact, such as between members of a household. That’s a notable difference from the clade II strain, which was transmitted primarily via sexual contact among men who have sex with men during the outbreak two years ago….
It is increasingly true now, that with post jet age travel, we are all our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers — in a single global biome. We need to realize that global human health — and pandemic abatement — is a global imperative. Onward.
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