{"id":14151,"date":"2024-10-05T19:41:59","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T19:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/?p=14151"},"modified":"2024-10-05T19:41:59","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T19:41:59","slug":"epidemie-de-mpox-en-afrique-866-morts-et-une-alerte-mondiale-de-loms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/?p=14151","title":{"rendered":"Epid\u00e9mie de Mpox en Afrique : 866 morts et une alerte mondiale de l\u2019OMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>L\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de Mpox, anciennement connue sous le nom de variole du singe, continue de faire des ravages en Afrique. Selon l\u2019agence sanitaire de l\u2019Union africaine, Africa CDC, le continent a enregistr\u00e9 866 d\u00e9c\u00e8s li\u00e9s \u00e0 cette maladie depuis le d\u00e9but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e. Lors d\u2019une conf\u00e9rence de presse tenue le 4 octobre, le m\u00e9decin Jean Kaseya, directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de l\u2019Africa CDC, a soulign\u00e9 que \u00ab l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie n\u2019est pas sous contr\u00f4le \u00bb, mettant ainsi en lumi\u00e8re l\u2019urgence de la situation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La propagation de la Mpox est inqui\u00e9tante, avec environ 2 500 nouveaux cas signal\u00e9s chaque semaine. Ce chiffre alarmant t\u00e9moigne de l\u2019escalade de la maladie sur le continent. Kaseya a \u00e9galement not\u00e9 que le taux de tests pour confirmer la pr\u00e9sence de la maladie demeure \u00ab trop faible \u00bb, ce qui complique davantage les efforts de contr\u00f4le et de pr\u00e9vention. La sensibilisation et l&rsquo;acc\u00e8s aux tests doivent \u00eatre renforc\u00e9s pour limiter la propagation de l\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie.<\/p>\n<p>La situation est exacerb\u00e9e par l\u2019apparition d\u2019un nouveau variant, le clade 1b, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9 dans plusieurs pays, dont la R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo (RDC), le Burundi, le Kenya, l\u2019Ouganda et le Rwanda. Cette recrudescence de cas et la mutation du virus ont conduit l\u2019Organisation mondiale de la sant\u00e9 (OMS) \u00e0 d\u00e9clencher, \u00e0 la mi-ao\u00fbt, son plus haut degr\u00e9 d\u2019alerte mondiale. Cette mesure vise \u00e0 mobiliser des ressources et \u00e0 coordonner les efforts de r\u00e9ponse \u00e0 cette crise sanitaire.<\/p>\n<p>Face \u00e0 cette situation critique, le lancement de la campagne de vaccination en R\u00e9publique d\u00e9mocratique du Congo, qui est l&rsquo;\u00e9picentre de l&rsquo;\u00e9pid\u00e9mie, a rencontr\u00e9 des obstacles. Initialement pr\u00e9vue pour le mercredi pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent, la campagne a \u00e9t\u00e9 retard\u00e9e sine die par les autorit\u00e9s sanitaires congolaises. Cependant, Jean Kaseya a assur\u00e9 que la vaccination devrait commencer dans deux jours, esp\u00e9rant ainsi contenir la propagation de la maladie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019\u00e9pid\u00e9mie de Mpox, anciennement connue sous le nom de variole du singe, continue de faire des ravages en Afrique. Selon l\u2019agence sanitaire de l\u2019Union africaine, Africa CDC, le continent a enregistr\u00e9 866 d\u00e9c\u00e8s li\u00e9s \u00e0 cette maladie depuis le d\u00e9but de l\u2019ann\u00e9e. Lors d\u2019une conf\u00e9rence de presse tenue le 4 octobre, le m\u00e9decin Jean Kaseya, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,12],"tags":[5667,169,1225,1646,5664,5410,3776,3951,5666,5665],"class_list":["post-14151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-la-une","category-actualites","category-societe","tag-africa-cdc","tag-afrique","tag-deces","tag-epidemie","tag-mpox","tag-oms","tag-republique-democratique-du-congo","tag-sante-publique","tag-vaccination","tag-variant-clade-1b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14152,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14151\/revisions\/14152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrikmatin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}