Most people with Mpox recover without treatment, but all of South Africa’s cases have had to be hospitalised. All the patients were also infected with HIV which was mostly untreated.
In this podcast, Mia Malan asks Jacqueline Weyer of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases how big the country’s Mpox outbreak is expected to be.
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