Truck drivers remain the most vulnerable group prone to Mpox disease, according to the latest update by the Health Ministry.
Speaking during a media briefing on the disease on Thursday, the Deputy Manager of the Public Health Emergency Operations Center, Dr Michelle Wangui, said the latest survey puts truck drivers at high risk followed by business people and female commercial sex workers. She added that secondary school students and other professionals are also among those at high risk. "We should be very concerned about it.
As a country we have recorded one death from one of the vulnerable groups we have mentioned," Wangui said. .Keep ReadingGovernment warns of mpox outbreak at Taita-Taveta border pointNo new mpox cases confirmed since July 22, Health ministry saysKenya confirms one Mpox case, steps up surveillance at borderAfrica Mpox resurgence fuels alarmAccording to the public health expert, while most of the patients recover from the disease, some populations are vulnerable - including young children, pregnant mothers and people who are immunocompromised. People with compromised immunity include those living with HIV, which is not well controlled. She added that although the disease manifests through skin lesions, sometimes they happen in the mouth causing one to experience difficulties with eating and drinking. "The lesions can get infected and the infection can spread through the blood, what we call sepsis.
And sometimes even the eyes can get infected and people can get loss of vision.
