Health officials are on high alert because of the rapid spread of

impacts in several African nations. The World Health Organization has declared

the outbreak a global health emergency and experts warned the virus could spread further internationally.

In fact, today Sweden reported the first case outside of Africa in an individual who had recently

returned to Sweden from Africa.

Ali Rogan has the details.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control reports that M. Pox, originally known as Monkey Pox,

has been detected in 13 African nations, including Kenya, Rwanda,

and Uganda.

More than 96% of all cases and deaths have occurred in one country, the Democratic Republic of Congo.

So far there have been more than 14,000 cases registered and 524 deaths in the continent

this year alone, surpassing last year's numbers.

Experts are asking for more funding, vaccines,

and a concerted effort to slow the transmission of this virus

which can be spread through infected individuals, sex, and contaminated meat.

For more, I'm joined by Anne Raimoyne, an epidemiologist at the University of California

at Los Angeles, who has studied MPOCs in the Democratic Republic of Congo for two decades.

And thank you so much for being here with us.

What populations are the most vulnerable to MPOCs?

Well, thanks for having me here.

What we're seeing is we're seeing two different populations at

great risk. We're seeing people in remote rural areas in DRC who are traditionally hunting wild animals for food source.

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