October 4, 2024 - Ghana has confirmed its first case of Monkey­pox (Mpox) this year, involving a 15-year-old male in the Bia West District of the Western North Region. It followed test results from the National Public Health and Refer­ence Laboratory (NPHRL) which confirmed the disease on October 1, 2024 after ...

August 15, 2024 - The World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the mpox outbreaks in Africa are a global emergency​, with cases confirmed among children and adults in more than a dozen countries.

August 16, 2024 - The World Health Organization is warning that the increasing spread of the virus in Africa could cross over into other continents

August 14, 2024 - Prof. Hervé Fleury, MD-PhD Ventum Biotech Scientific Board Member

An outbreak of human monkeypox disease occurred outside Africa in 2003, after infected animals from Ghana were imported into the United States (10).

January 21, 2023 - Consequently, tailoring the efforts ... in vaccine effectiveness and safety and promoting the importance of self-vaccination to protect others. The psychological antecedents of the general population versus HCWs. ... This content is subject to copyright. ... Access to this full-text is provided by MDPI. ... This content is subject to copyright. ... AL-Ahdal, T.; Eshun, G. Monkeypox ... Ghanaians: A Call for ...

While the world continues to face ... viruses: monkeypox (MPX) and more recently Marburg virus (MARV). The MPX outbreak has infected more than 27 814 patients in 89 countries and territories as of Aug 2022 and was declared a public health emergency of international concern on July 23, 2022. The MARV outbreak involved only two cases to date in the southern Ashanti region of Ghana as of July ...

September 19, 2022 - Dr. Henry Nagai, the Chief of Party and Public Health Physician, JSI Research and Training Institute, disclosed this when he spoke on Ghana’s perspective, at a free webinar (online) session on emerging viral infections and diseases with focus on the Monkeypox virus.

July 29, 2022 - Dr. Dimie Ogoina detected monkeypox in an 11-year-old patient in 2017 and saw many other cases since. He's tried to warn health officials that the virus has changed the way it spreads — to no avail.

October 3, 2024 - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed a case of monkeypox in the Bia West District of the Western North Region.

August 20, 2024 - ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA, 27 June 2022 – Since the beginning of 2022, 1,715 cases (1,636 suspected; 79 confirmed) and 73 deaths (CFR: 4.3%) of monkeypox have been reported from eight endemic and two non-endemic African Union (AU) Member States (MS). During the period of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

From January to 1 June 2022, 1408 suspected and 44 confirmed cases including 66 deaths were reported from seven endemic countries (Table 2). ^[1]^ Monkeypox endemic countries are: Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana (identified in animals ...

Mpox is an infectious disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is endemic in densely forested regions of West, Central and East Africa, particularly in the northern and central regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Eleven of the 26 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the ...

Since then Mpox has been endemic in a number of African countries, namely, Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, and South Sudan.

July 19, 2022 - After the coronavirus pandemic and the rise of monkeypox cases, news of another virus can trigger nerves globally. The highly infectious Marburg virus has been reported in the West African country of Ghana this week, according to the World Health Organization.

October 3, 2024 - The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has confirmed a monkeypox case in the Bia West District of the Western North Region.

The Monkeypox virus, declared a global emergency outbreak, has garnered increasing response globally. The African healthcare community has not translated urgency in its response to the increasing outbreak. The multisectoral influence of COVID-19 has ensured ...

Monkeypox is a zoonotic disease caused by monkeypox virus (MPXV), which is a member of orthopoxvirus genus. The reemergence of MPXV in 2017 (at Bayelsa state) after 39 years of no reported case in Nigeria, and the export of travelers’ monkeypox ...

Travelers to Nigeria should avoid contact with sick people, animals such as rodents (rats, squirrels) and non-human primates (monkeys, chimpanzees), products that come from wild animals (including wild game), and contaminated materials (such as clothing or bedding) used by sick people or animals.

August 20, 2024 - Africa update (endemic and non-endemic ... and Nigeria (49; 0). Ghana: Since the last report (11 November 2022), Ghana Health Services (GHS) reported nine new confirmed cases with no new deaths of monkeypox....