Mpox 2024 Outbreak

From the Global.health team (info@global.health). Published on 2024-10-17. Permalink

Summary

8543 confirmed and 32562 suspected cases as of 2024-10-16

The Mpox 2024 outbreak has been detected in countries, with either confirmed or suspected cases.

Figure 1: Number of cumulative confirmed and suspected cases by date of report in the primary source.

Figure 2: Number of cumulative confirmed cases by date of confirmation.

Country	Confirmed cases	Confirmed deaths
Democratic Republic of the Congo	6962	972
Burundi	1169	0
Nigeria	94	0
Uganda	91	0
Cote d'Ivoire	74	1
Central African Republic	57	1
South Africa	25	3
Republic of the Congo	21	0
Kenya	13	0
Liberia	13	0
Cameroon	6	3
Rwanda	6	0
Morocco	3	0
Ghana	2	0
Gabon	2	0
India	1	0
Guinea	1	0
Sweden	1	0
Thailand	1	0
Zambia	1	0

Table 1: Aggregate data of confirmed cases and deaths by country. DRC death data is curated separately and is not available in the linelist download.

Figure 3: Age and gender distribution of Mpox cases in the current outbreak. 1% of confirmed cases include sufficient metadata to be included in this figure. When reported age ranges span multiple age categories, counts are evenly distributed among the categories that capture the reported age range.

Country	ISO3	Clade status
Democratic Republic of the Congo	COD	Clades Ia and Ib
Cameroon	CMR	Clades Ia and II (a and/or b)
Burundi	BDI	Clade Ib
Kenya	KEN	Clade Ib
Rwanda	RWA	Clade Ib
Uganda	UGA	Clade Ib
Central African Republic	CAF	Clade Ia
Congo	COG	Clade Ia
South Sudan	SSD	Clade Ia
Sudan	SDN	Clade Ia
Benin	BEN	Clade II (a and/or b)
Côte d’Ivoire	CIV	Clade II (a and/or b)
Egypt	EGY	Clade II (a and/or b)
Ghana	GHA	Clade II (a and/or b)
Guinea	GIN	Clade II (a and/or b)
Liberia	LBR	Clade II (a and/or b)
Morocco	MAR	Clade II (a and/or b)
Mozambique	MOZ	Clade II (a and/or b)
Nigeria	NGA	Clade II (a and/or b)
South Africa	ZAF	Clade II (a and/or b)

Table 2: MPXV clade distribution, source: WHO Mpox briefing report

Footnotes

Footnotes for Africa CDC (ACDC) Epidemic Intelligence Weekly Report, 12 October 2024 and WHO 2022-24 Mpox (Monkeypox) Outbreak: Global Trends Dashboard. Users should refer to GitHub to review all open and closed issues.

DRC: G.h case counts, for suspected and confirmed cases, now align with WHO’s dashboard data [starting with data as of 2024-10-13]. Africa CDC has not reported suspected counts for two report cycles.
Burundi: G.h case counts, for suspected and confirmed cases, now align with WHO’s dashboard data [starting with data as of 2024-10-13]. Africa CDC case counts trail behind WHO counts.
Uganda: G.h will only provide confirmed case counts for Uganda moving forward.
Kenya: location of death is not provided by source. G.h is unable to capture this death in a linelist format. Deaths by country are provided in a table format in our briefing report.

Data accessibility and reproducibility: All data used in this report are available from our data repository. Should you identify any issues or have questions please raise an issue on GitHub or write to us: info@global.health. This report may be cited as:

Global.health Mpox 2024 briefing report, published 2024-10-17, retrieved from
https://reports.global.health/mpox-2024/2024-10-17.html

If you cite this report, please also cite the relevant sources, which are mentioned in our outbreak information page.