Mpox outbreak in South Africa: A wake-up call for strengthening preparedness and response

• Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq,
• Qiuwei Pan,
• Patricia Schlagenhauf

Affiliations

Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq

Corresponding author. Specialty Internal Medicine and Quality Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.; Specialty Internal Medicine and Quality Department, Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana, USA; Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

Qiuwei Pan

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Patricia Schlagenhauf

University of Zürich, Institute for Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention, WHO Collaborating Centre for Travellers' Health, Department of Global and Public Health, MilMedBiol Competence Centre, Zürich, Switzerland