The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has initiated contact tracing efforts to identify individuals who might have come into contact with the two confirmed cases of Monkeypox (Mpox) earlier reported in the Accra Metropolitan Area.
It said those contacts would be monitored for symptoms and provided with the appropriate care and guidance.
These formed part of the necessary public health measures the GHS was swiftly and effectively implementing to contain the spread of the virus after two such cases were confirmed in the country last Thursday These were contained in a press release issued by the acting Director-General of the GHS, Professor Samuel Kaba Akoriyea, on May 15, announcing the confirmation of two cases of Mpox in Accra.
Mpox is a viral disease that is transmitted to humans through close contact with an infected person or animal or with material contaminated with the virus.
