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The World Health Organisation and Africa Centre for Disease Control had on Tuesday declared a public health emergency over the growing mpox outbreak on the continent.

There is also a serious and growing outbreak in the DCR that has now expanded outside the country.

According to Dr Bamidele Odumosu of the Faculty of Science, University of Lagos, bodily fluids include blood, saliva, semen, and even respiratory droplets, such as those expelled when sneezing.

Odumosu in an interview with The PUNCH said, “Mpox, like other viral infections, spreads primarily through close person-to-person contact or direct contact with the bodily fluids or rashes of an infected individual. For example, if an infected person’s body fluids or rash touch another person, that person may contract the virus. Mpox can also be transmitted through contaminated materials, such as clothing or bedsheets, and there have been reports of animal-to-human transmission.”

He explained that Mpox was a viral infection caused by the monkeypox virus, saying like smallpox, Mpox belonged to the same family of viruses.

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