DAKAR, Senegal -- Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency Monday after the country reported its second case of mpox in less than four days, health authorities said.
Freetown is a city squeezing itself into the small space between the mountains and the sea, in a country with the highest annual rainfall in Africa. In August - the height of the rainy season - an ...
Sierra Leone has reported its first confirmed case of Mpox since the world's highest alert level for the potentially deadly viral disease was raised last year.
John Wessels/AFP On the same day, in Senegal, young Muslims gather at the Seydina Limamou Laye Mausoleum in the capital, Dakar ... in the Sierra Leone capital Freetown on Monday.
DAKAR, Senegal (AP ... Both patients are receiving treatment at a hospital in the capital, Freetown. Mpox, also known as monkeypox, was first identified by scientists in 1958 when outbreaks ...