The Ministry of Health, through Health PS Mary Muthoni, provided an update today regarding the Mpox outbreak in the country. According to the statement, there have been no new Mpox cases reported.

“We continue to monitor the one confirmed case, who traveled from Kampala in Uganda to Mombasa, then to Rwanda through Taita Taveta and Tanzania. The case, a long-distance truck driver, is now back in Kenya,” the ministry stated. “We are tracing all close contacts at his workplace, the hospital where he was admitted, and his travel routes.”

In response to the confirmed Mpox case, the Ministry has implemented several measures. These include contact tracing, enhanced surveillance, and heightened monitoring in all counties along the Busia to Mombasa highway and the Mombasa to Taveta Road to identify all contacts and any other unidentified cases.

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Additional measures include cross-border communication, deploying rapid response teams, public health emergency operations across the country, incident management teams, monitoring regional outbreaks, and public sensitization efforts.

The Ministry advised all counties to educate the public on the outbreak, necessary preventive measures, and steps to take if they contract the disease. Recommended measures include frequent hand washing with soap and water or hand sanitiser, seeking early treatment, and avoiding close contact with sick persons.

Emergency hotline numbers have been provided for the public to report suspected cases and seek further information on the outbreak: 719, 0729471414, and 0732353535.

The Ministry is collaborating closely with county government authorities, Port Health Authorities, and all relevant state agencies and stakeholders to ensure comprehensive interventions are in place to protect citizens from the outbreak.