Jam’iyyar kiwon lafiyar Jamus, Robert Koch Institute (RKI), ta ruwaito kaddamar da sabon irin virus mpox a Jamus na kwanan baya. Wannan sabon irin, wanda aka fi sani da clade 1b, an ce ya fi yawa na kamuwa idan aka kwatanta da irin da ake da shi a baya.
An bayyana cewa kamuwar ta faru a waje na kasar, kuma aka gano ta a ranar Juma'a ta gabata. RKI ta ce ba ta ganin haÉ—ari na karuwa ga Jamus ba, amma tana kallon hali ta hankali sosai.
Virus mpox, wanda yake da alaka da cutar smallpox, yana haifar da zazzabi, ciwon jiki, kumburi na lymph nodes, da ciwon fata wanda yake kumbura. Cutar tana da manyan subtypes biyu — clade 1 da clade 2. Daga Mayu 2022, clade 2 ta yada a duniya, musamman ga maza masu jinsi maza da maza a Turai da Amurka. A watan Yuli 2022, WHO ta sanar da hadari na lafiya ta duniya, wanda yake mafi girma a matakin hadari.
Vaccination da yakin wayar da kan jama’a a kasashe da dama sun taimaka wajen rage adadin kamuwa a duniya, kuma WHO ta dage hadarin a watan Mayu 2023 bayan ruwaito 140 na mutuwa daga cikin kusan 87,400 na kamuwa. Amma shekarar nan, wata annoba ta barke a Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Kongo… Sannan, clade 1, wanda yake shafar yara, sabon irin ya bayyana a DRC, wanda aka fi sani da clade 1b.
Kasu na clade 1b kuma an ruwaito a kasashen makwabta kamar Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, da Uganda — wadanda ba su da kamuwar mpox a baya. WHO ta sanar da hadari na duniya na biyu a watan Agusta.