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South Kivu: 26 confirmed cases of Mpox reported in the Miti-Murhesa health zone

July 5, 2024

Bukavu, July 5, 2024 (ACP). – Twenty-six cases of monkeypox disease "Mpox" have been confirmed in the Miti-Murhesa health zone, 30 kilometers north of Bukavu in South Kivu in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a local health source said.

" To date, we already have sixty-nine cases (69) including (26) confirmed from all the samples that we sent to the INRB ," the head doctor of the Miti-Murhesa health zone, Doctor Serges Munyahu Cikuru, told the ACP on Friday.

" Almost all the health areas of our Miti-Murhesa health zone are affected by the disease, especially Kavumu, Mulungu-Miti, Kalwa and Murhesa ," added the Miti-Murhesa zone chief, specifying that the patients are being treated in medical facilities.

" The only message to the population is to ask them to respect hygiene standards to avoid contamination. This disease is very contagious and dangerous and is transmitted by direct contact ," said Serge Munyahu.

" The sudden onset of high fevers and skin rashes with lesions that can even spread all over the body and that are filled with fluids or pus and that end up drying out and forming scabs, these are the symptoms or signs that the suspected person or animal presents ," the source added.

The communications officer at the provincial health department, Doctor Claude Bahizire, said that currently twenty-two (22) out of the thirty-four (34) health zones in South Kivu are affected by monkeypox disease.

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