Maputo, 17 Jul (AIM) – The Mozambican health authorities have revealed that confirmed cases of the disease M-pox (formerly known as monkey pox), in the northern province of Niassa, have risen from three to four.
According to Narciso Rondinho, director of the Niassa Provincial Health Services, cited by Rádio Moçambique, the most recent case was confirmed at the Cóbuè Administrative Post, in Lago district.
He explained that ten samples taken from suspected individuals in the districts of Metarica and Cuamba were all negative.
“We have been working in Mecanhelas, Ngaúma, Lichinga, Sanga and Lago”, Rondinho said. “To contain the spread of the disease, surveillance teams have been reinforced in the districts bordering Malawi”.
Rondinho called on the population not to be alarmed and to reinforce prevention and surveillance measures, stressing the importance of distancing themselves from people with suspicious symptoms, as a way of stopping the spread of the virus.
M-pox is a viral disease transmitted by animals to human beings, identified for the first time in 1970, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The current outbreak in Africa has so far affected 22 countries. Over 77,000 cases have been notified, 501 of whom have died.
(AIM)
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