Mpox 2024 Outbreak

From the Global.health team (info@global.health). Published on 2024-12-07. Permalink

Summary

13092 confirmed and 43568 suspected cases as of 2024-12-03

The Mpox 2024 outbreak has been detected in 27 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	9513	1138
Burundi	2334	1
Uganda	716	2
Nigeria	145	0
Cote d'Ivoire	101	1
Central African Republic	79	2
Liberia	62	0
Rwanda	37	0
South Africa	25	3
Kenya	23	0
Republic of the Congo	22	0
Cameroon	9	2
United Kingdom	5	0
Morocco	3	0
Ghana	3	0
Angola	2	0
Gabon	2	0
Zimbabwe	2	0
Mauritius	1	0
India	1	0
Guinea	1	0
Germany	1	0
Sweden	1	0
Thailand	1	0
Canada	1	0
United States of America	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. 0% 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
Zambia	ZMB	Clade Ib
Zimbabwe	ZWE	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

Users should refer to GitHub to review all open and closed issues.

On 05 November 2024, G.h updated our case status definition for ‘suspected’ cases to align with WHO’s description from their website, “In some countries, suspected cases that undergo testing are not removed from the count, regardless of whether the test result is positive (confirmed case) or negative (discarded case). Moreover, not all countries have robust surveillance systems for mpox, meaning reported case counts likely underestimate the extent of community transmission." G.h adjusted our discarded / suspected case numbers in our linelist database to align with WHO case numbers for suspected cases. G.h is using official data for suspected cases from the Rwanda Ministry of Health since WHO has not included suspected cases for Rwanda in their reporting. G.h is using official data for suspected cases from the Rwanda Ministry of Health since WHO has not included suspected cases for Rwanda in their reporting.
Uganda: G.h only provide confirmed case counts for Uganda.
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.
G.h has assigned discarded (negative) case status when data is provided by source [i.e. Kenya, CAR]. G.h counts for suspected cases may not align with WHO dashboard: "In some countries, suspected cases that undergo testing are not removed from the count, regardless of whether the test result is positive (confirmed case) or negative (discarded case). Moreover, not all countries have robust surveillance systems for mpox, meaning reported case counts are likely underestimate the extent of community transmission." [WHO]
G.h death counts by country aligns with WHO’s dashboard for data as of 2024-10-20.

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 2024-12-07, retrieved from
https://reports.global.health/mpox-2024/2024-12-07.html

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