DRC had hoped to receive a first round of vaccine deliveries this week as virus spreads. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) says it no longer expects to receive its first delivery of mpox vaccines this week as global health authorities say the spread of the disease can still be contained. Asked whether the DRC would begin receiving the doses this week, Cris Kacita, the head of the countrys response team, told the Reuters news agency on Monday: No

"It's a huge challenge," said Pierre-Olivier Ngadjole, a doctor with the Swiss humanitarian organization Medair, which runs the Munigi treatment center. At the hospital in South Kivu, Nathalie's mother, Ms.

Implementation of a novel scoring tool for urine culturing was associated with a more than 30% reduction in urinary antibiotic prescribing at a rehabilitation facility for long-term care (LTC) patients in Canada, researchers reported today in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. The aptly named BLADDER score was developed by clinicians at a 134-bed complex-continuing-care and rehabilitation facility in Ontario to promote more appropriate urine culturing in non-catheterized patients with presumed urinary tract infections (UTIs). Each of the letters in the score represents a possible symptom representative of UTI (B, blood in urine; L, loss of urinary control or incontinence; A, abdominal or flank pain; D, dysuria or pain on urination; E, elevated temperature or fever; R, repeated urination or frequency), with 1 point given for each letter in the algorithm; a score below 2 suggests careful monitoring of patient symptoms rather than a urine culture

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GENEVA -- The U.N. health agency on Monday launched a six-month plan to help stanch outbreaks of mpox transmission, including ramping up staffing in affected countries and boosting surveillance, prevention and response strategies

About 4,000 more mpox cases were reported in Africa last week, mostly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the head of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said yesterday. In another development, Nigeria yesterday received 10,000 mpox vaccine doses, becoming the first country to receive the vaccine, the World Health Organization (WHO) Nigeria office said in a statement.

rn Globally, the multi-country outbreak of mpox has led to 116 countries and territories in all WHO regions reporting 99 176 confirmed cases and 208 deaths (CFR 0.2%) between May 2022 and June 2024.

The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the launch of a preparedness strategy and response plan to contain a mpox outbreak rapidly spreading in African countries, with two related cases recently reported in Sweden and Thailand. The plan, which covers the next 6 months, also includes a more fleshed-out price tag of $135 million, for which the WHO will soon launch a funding appeal. In a speech today at a meeting of the WHO regional committee for Africa, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the plan hinges on comprehensive surveillance and response, minimizing zoonotic transmission, empowering communities to take an active role, and advancing research on and equitable access to vaccines and other countermeasures

The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched a global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to stop outbreaks of human-to-human transmission of mpox through coordinated global, regional, and national efforts.

Analyzed data and model fitting We identified 7 publications including at least one case with lesion samples meeting the inclusion criteria, and a total of 90 mpox cases (seesection Methods).

There are no vaccines for mpox available in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicenter of a global health emergency declared last week, even though the country first asked for the shots two years ago and the manufacturers say they have supplies. The most important thing we need right now are the vaccines, said Dr