The announcement came the day after the World Health Organization declared mpox a global public health emergency.
Sweden said Thursday that it had confirmed a case of the more contagious version of mpox currently circulating in central and eastern Africa.
It is the first known infection of the strain outside of Africa.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to 12 other countries in the region.
Which means the pharmaceutical companies will actually starting to research on countermeasures. Just like they did with Ebola: While this was raging in Africa and killing PoCs left and right, nobody f-ing cared. As soon as a number of white people got infected, they started hunting for a remedy.
They already have a vaccine.
They already were sending doses to help mitigate the spread. Calm your tits.
Though it is worth noting that the original commenter very nearly hit on an important point: the vaccines are not accessible enough to communities in Africa, especially in the poorest - often the most impacted - regions.
Mpox is something we could have stopped long ago with a better system of distributing/purchasing vaccines, like with tuberculosis.
It is true that when these diseases reach Europe, North America and East Asia, these medicines suddenly start being distributed far more effectively, since that’s where most of the companies that manufacture them are based, and since the countries there are wealthy enough to effectively do so, but only now that it’s an Us Problem™️
From what I read, the pharmaceutical companies have been on this like a tramp on a sandwich, right from the beginning.
I think you just haven’t realised that you’re the racist
They are somewhat right about the fact that the vaccines haven’t been sufficiently accessible in Africa to actually tackle the crisis, though