One person dies from mpox in Ivory Coast
The Peninsula
Abidjan: Ivory Coast health authorities on Tuesday reported 28 cases of mpox, with one person dying from the virus that has killed hundreds in Democra...
Abidjan: Ivory Coast health authorities on Tuesday reported 28 cases of mpox, with one person dying from the virus that has killed hundreds in Democratic Republic of Congo.
The total has risen from six declared cases on August 1.
The National Public Hygiene Institute (INHP) recorded "28 confirmed cases including one death" across the country as of Tuesday, said an INHP doctor Daouda Coulibaly.
The fatal case and some others were recorded in the country's economic capital Abidjan, the INHP said. Coulibaly said tests were being carried out to identify the strain of the latest mpox cases.
"The situation is no cause for alarm," Coulibaly said. "We are seeing just the start of a nascent epidemic -- there is no upsurge" in cases.
