Epidemiologist breaks down how and where mpox is spreading – PBS NewsHour

Ali Rogin:

The Africa Centers for Disease Control reports that mpox, originally known as monkeypox, has been detected in 13 African nations, including Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. More than 96 percent of all cases and deaths have occurred in one country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

So far there have been more than 14,000 cases registered and 524 deaths in the continent this year alone, surpassing last year's numbers. Experts are asking for more funding, vaccines and a concerted effort to slow the transmission of this virus, which can be spread through infected individuals, sex and contaminated meat.

For more, I'm joined by Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the University of California at Los Angeles who has studied mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo for two decades.

Anne, thank you so much for being here with us.

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