He said that a 20-year-old student was also discovered to have contracted the disease, adding that both of them are from Abidjan.
“The mode of exposure remains unclear, and the circulating clade is yet to be identified,” he said.
“In Kenya, a 42-year-old long-distance truck driver was identified as the first Mpox case at the Taita Taveta point of entry on the Kenya-Tanzania border.
“In Uganda, two female cases were reported in the Kasese district, both imported from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).”
Kaseya said that Mpox posed a high risk due to its 3.2 per cent case fatality rate, with children under 15 being the most affected, demographically.
It would be recalled that on July 17, the African Union’s Executive Council approved a statute allowing the Africa CDC to make independent public health decisions.
This move followed WHO’s July 23, 2022, declaration of monkeypox as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), despite Africa dealing with the disease since the 1970s.
