{"id":1788,"date":"2025-01-25T02:39:16","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/covering-an-mpox-outbreak-in-congo-mile-after-mile-of-muck\/"},"modified":"2025-01-25T02:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T02:39:16","slug":"covering-an-mpox-outbreak-in-congo-mile-after-mile-of-muck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/covering-an-mpox-outbreak-in-congo-mile-after-mile-of-muck\/","title":{"rendered":"Covering an Mpox Outbreak in Congo: Mile After Mile of Muck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We set out again at sunrise, and soon arrived at a mud pit in a hillside. There an industry had emerged in pushing and pulling vehicles up and down the hill. There were belching diesel fumes, and a great deal of yelling. I nicknamed the place Mordor, after Tolkien\u2019s hellscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Scrambling up the hill, I thought about how everything entering Kamituga \u2014 construction material, clothing, rice, wheat, beer \u2014 travels this route. Which means that everything needed to respond to an epidemic, every vaccine, virus sample and latex glove, comes this way, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just before noon, we rolled into Kamituga. At the hospital, a collection of one-story brick buildings, I met Dr. Steeve Bilembo and Fid\u00e8le Kakemenge, the doctor and nurse who, a year earlier, had identified the first mpox case at the Kamituga Reference Hospital. It was a virus they had never seen before, and the international alert they raised brought epidemiologists and virologists trekking to their door. We donned protective equipment to enter the mpox isolation ward and talk to patients; the youngest was five weeks old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Then we went to what\u2019s called a maison de tol\u00e9rance to speak with sex workers<em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">. <\/em>The women sat on upturned beer crates and spoke of how painful their infections had been. Their children sat wide-eyed in the chaos of the establishment; a young boy, feverish with what was likely malaria, was passed from lap to lap. Their vulnerability, and the conditions that had fueled the transmission of mpox among the women and their clients, were on clear display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The way out of Kamituga was even more challenging than the way in. We got stuck in the mud in Mordor; at one point, one of my legs sank, mud reaching up to my waist, and a passerby had to pull me out. 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