Number Of Mpox Cases May Show Signs Of Flattening Early Next Year, Africa CDC Says

Reuters (11/28, Miridzhanian) reported, “The number of mpox cases will continue to rise during the next four weeks before starting to show signs of flattening early next year, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.” Ngashi Ngongo of Africa CDC said, “I think with this intensification of the response, we are hoping that after about four weeks...we should see some plateauing of the outbreak as a result of all the current investment, and then towards the end of quarter one, we can then see the bending of the curve.” Ngongo “said outbreak surveillance including contact tracing remained a significant challenge for the response, but that Africa CDC was trying to strengthen it by deploying community health workers, epidemiologists and infection prevention specialists in areas with confirmed cases of mpox.”