What the records say
- When
- 23 Jun 2022
- Kind
- Epidemic
- Coordinates
- 29.00° S, 24.00° E
- Description
- ongoing outbreak of monkeypox in South Africa, 23 June 2022–present
- Deaths
- 0
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
2022–2023 mpox outbreak in South Africa
Outbreak of mpox in South Africa
The 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in South Africa is a part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. South Africa was the forty-seventh country, outside of the African countries with endemic mpox, to experience an outbreak in 2022. The first case of mpox in South Africa was on June 23, 2022.
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