Nicaise Ndembi is the Africa mpox incident manager for the Continental Preparedness and Response Plan, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Salim S. Abdool Karim is the chair of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency Consultative Group, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; and a professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
Science. 2024 Oct 4;386(6717):7. doi: 10.1126/science.adt4793. Epub 2024 Oct 3.
Last month, when the world's most populus country, India, reported its first case of the new, highly transmissible clade Ib mpox variant, the challenge of containing the virus was once again evident. Only a few weeks before that in August, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared mpox a public health emergency in response to its spread in Africa. Since then, cases of clade Ib mpox have been reported in Sweden, Thailand, and Pakistan. Although mpox is not yet a global pandemic, the new variant may tip the scales in that direction if the world does not act quickly to mitigate its spread in Africa.
上个月，当世界上人口最多的国家印度报告首例新型高传染性 Ib 分支猴痘变异株病例时，控制病毒的挑战再次显现。就在几周前的 8 月，世界卫生组织（WHO）和非洲疾病控制与预防中心（Africa CDC）宣布猴痘在非洲传播构成公共卫生紧急事件。此后，瑞典、泰国和巴基斯坦也报告了 Ib 分支猴痘病例。尽管猴痘尚未成为全球大流行，但如果世界各国不迅速采取行动，遏制其在非洲的传播，新变异株可能会使情况向这一方向倾斜。
