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IFRC: shortage of testing, vaccines hampers MPOX response in Africa

2024.08.16 06:35

© Reuters. Christian Musema, a laboratory nurse, verifies samples taken from a child declared a suspected case of monkeypox virus that sparks off a painful rash, enlarged lymph nodes and fever; and recovered, collects water at the the treatment centre in Munigi, following Mpox cases in Nyiragongo territory near Goma, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo July 19, 2024. REUTERS/Arlette Bashizi

(Reuters) – Far more diagnostic kits, treatments and vaccines need to be shipped to Africa to respond adequately to the outbreak of a new strain of the mpox virus there, an official of the Red Cross and Red Crescent humanitarian network said on Friday.

“There is a critical shortage of testing, treatment and vaccines across the continent. These shortages are severely hampering the ability to contain the outbreak,” Bronwyn Nichol of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said in a media call on Friday.



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