LA VALLETTA (MALTA) (ITALPRESS/MNA) – Malta has joined other European states in providing assistance to African countries in dealing with the Mpox outbreak. The initiative Team Europe led by DG Health Emergency Preparedness and Response HERA, will see European countries donating vaccines and mobilising resources to assist in slowing down the disease. Around half a million vaccines are being donated by the countries taking part in this initiative. The Maltese government said together European countries, Malta will be donating around half a million vaccines. Laurent Muschel, head of the EU’s Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority arrived at the city of Kinshasa in Kongo to deliver the first consignment of vaccines against Mpox. Mpox, also known as Monkeypox, is a viral infection first identified in humans in the 1970s in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), transmitted to humans through contact with infected animals. Human-to-human transmission can also occur, particularly through close physical contact with an infected person, including sexual contact. Mpox made headlines after the rise of the Clade I variant, which spread to a number of African regions, prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a public health emergency of international concern in August.

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Source: medNews