Health department to source vaccines from WHO member countries as SA records first Mpox death

Phaahla said 38 contacts were identified in KwaZulu-Natal by the outbreak response teams. This includes 16 household contacts, 10 hospital contacts, five partners/sexual partners and seven friends.One of the cases indicated to have had sexual contact with multiple partners, men and women.“Regarding the case notified on May 8 in Gauteng, seven contacts have been followed up for 21 days and none showed any signs or symptoms of Mpox.”With the case notified on June 7, the list of identified contacts was developed and they will be monitored for symptoms for 21 days.The provinces…