As at 29th April 2025 reliefweb alerted that “Uganda was reporting the highest number of confirmed Mpox cases globally, with 200 to 300 new cases reported by week.”

Read more in “Multi-country outbreak of mpox external situation report #51 – 29/4/2025”

As of 1st April 2025, World Health Organisation notified that Uganda had registered 4,913 confirmed cases of Mpox and 37 deaths from Mpox.

Read more in “Mpox outbreak in Uganda situation update – 01 April 2025”

A scary turn of events from August 2024:

New Vision reports that on 2nd August 2024, Uganda’s Ministry of Health confirmed two imported cases of Monkey Pox (Mpox) afflicted persons at the Bwera Border in Kasese District in Uganda.

Two women “presented with a skin rash, swollen lymph nodes, and general malaise signs and symptoms consistent with Mpox,” New Vision reported. Samples were taken from then, tested and, according to New Vision, it was confirmed by the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) that what afflicted the two was indeed Mpox.

Since then the US Embassy in Uganda has issued a “health alert” and a “Level 2 Travel Health Notice for Mpox in the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring countries.” In which it cautions travelers to:

• Wash your hands often with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer, especially before eating or touching your face and after you use the bathroom.
• Avoid close skin-to-skin contact with sick people; contact with dead or alive wild animals; eating or preparing meat from wild game (bush meat); and contact with materials or objects used by sick people.

Read and learn more on Mpox from the US Embassy alert here.

Reports coming out of Kenya and Rwanda are concerning as well. In fact, the photo profiled in this post, of a Mpox afflicted person, was apparently taken at a hospital in Kigali in Rwanda and shared by a doctor working working there.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO):

“Mpox (or monkeypox) is an illness caused by the monkeypox virus. It is a viral infection which can spread between people and occasionally from the environment to people via things and surfaces that have been touched by a person with mpox. In settings where the monkeypox virus is present among some wild animals, it can also be transmitted from infected animals to people who have contact with them.”

Learn more from WHO about Mpox here.

We wonder, what is the exact situation of Mpox in Uganda? Please share this post within your networks and especially to Uganda’s Ministry of Health asking for answers. If you do have answers, please share them in comments to this post. Thank you!