💉 Argentina to make pneumococcal vaccine locally; BMI to hopefully be debunked; The WHO hopes to avoid being defunded

#549 | Mpox rises in Africa; Lessons on how to fight Marburg; Foot-and-mouth disease in bloom

Hello, and welcome back to what is a fairly short Kable this week.

The Africa CDC announced that in 2024, mpox jumped several rungs in the cause of disease ladder in Africa to reach the number three spot behind cholera and measles. And if a reminder were needed that mpox is still thriving in Africa, this week Sierra Leone reported its first mpox cases i…