{
  "abstract": "On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security. 1 The following day, the WHO declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, marking the second such global alert for mpox in 15 months.2 These declarations followed a rapid increase in cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with geographic spread of the disease to Burundi, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda.3",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Internal Medicine, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria"
      ],
      "name": "Chizaram Onyeaghala"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku, Enugu, Nigeria"
      ],
      "name": "Michael Iroezindu"
    }
  ],
  "title": "The 2024–2025 upsurge of mpox in Africa: another opportunity to accelerate global solidarity for a neglected disease",
  "uid": "f3623c60-d2b0-5b0b-89a0-60ec0e2f2829"
}