Johnathan Paoli
Health Minister Joe Phaahla has updated the nation on the initial outbreak of Mpox, formerly referred to as Monkeypox, within the country as well as the government’s plan to tackle the situation.
In a statement made on Wednesday in Pretoria, Minister Phaahla said the latest case involved a 39-year-old male who was admitted to the Addington Hospital in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
The Minister was joined by health experts from the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), the World Health Organisation and senior officials from the health department.
The Minister said the global outbreak of Mpox started in 2022 and that it was a notifiable medical condition that South Africa is currently experiencing.
“South Africa is among the countries currently experiencing the outbreak of Mpox, a viral infection which spreads between people and occasionally from the environment to people via object and surfaces that have been touch be a person
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