For the period, 1st January 2020 to 1st May 2022, a total of 10 545 cases (suspected) and 362 deaths of Monkeypox were recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo .
For 2022 alone, up to week 17, DRC has reported 1238 cases with 57 deaths.
There is an issue of having laboratory-confirmed diagnosis in DRC due to limited resources, hence suspected cases are reported.
DRC is suffering the most complex and longest humanitarian crises in the world.
Over 27 million Congolese are acutely food insecure at Crisis (IPC Phase 3) and Emergency (IPC Phase 4) level -- the highest number worldwide.
A good paper describing the genetic and epidemiological characteristics of Nigerian and exported cases. academic.oup.com/jid/article/22…
The United States reported a multistate outbreak in 2003, when a shipment of small mammals (rope squirrels, tree squirrels, African giant pouched rats, brush-tailed porcupines, dormice, and striped mice) from Ghana spread the virus to pet prairie dogs.
This forced the CDC and FDA to prohibit the importation of African rodents into USA.
We are now seeing a sustained rise in COVID-19 cases in SA.
Nothing too drastic at the moment, but nevertheless, an increasing trend.
We can see this growth over recent weeks more better on log scale.
Data up to 17 October '22
Difficult to interpret test positivity rates as the testing rate dropped, but for the most recent week ending 14 Oct 22, both the number of PCR tests conducted and number of positive PCR tests increased,
The spike in week ending 6 Aug '22 resulted from fewer samples being submitted due to staff training.
Here's the breakdown by Influenza subtype and lineage.
Early in the Influenza season, we saw mostly circulation of Influenza A(H1N1 pdm09), but this was followed by the circulation of Influenza A(H3N2) and Influenza B(Victoria).
The NICD also mentioned that we had two cases of dual infections and they are Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and Influenza A(H3N2), and Influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 and Influenza B(lineage inconclusive) from Gauteng.