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The WHO declared the recent outbreak of mpox a public health emergency.

has risen to ten and all of the patients have a strain of the virus, clade 1b, that is more transmissible between people, a health official said on Saturday.

The country borders the Democratic Republic of Congo where the current outbreak began in January 2023, making Uganda a particular focus point for health officials.Henry Kyobe, who heads the government’s mpox response effort, told Reuters the country had ten cases so far, with four of those patients still in isolation and six already treated and discharged.

“We are happy we have not recorded any fatality so far and we’re confident we’ll beat the outbreak,” Kyobe said, adding they had conducted over 200 tests of suspected patients. The World Health Organization declared the recent outbreak of the disease a public health emergency in mid-August after the new variant was identified.

Mpox causes flu-like symptoms and pus-filled lesions, and transmit through close physical contact. While usually mild, the disease can be fatal if left untreated. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.

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