Zimbabwe: No Need to Panic Over Mpox Cases

The first cases of Mpox have appeared in Zimbabwe, both almost certainly contacted outside the country, probably when the patients visited South Africa and Tanzania.

This was inevitable and cases have now appeared in a lot of countries because people do travel and so the virus has moved out of the African equatorial forests, where certain rodents have been identified as the reservoir.

Cases outside the home forests are still not dramatically high, largely because health ministries around the world…