Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 12 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion

Dr. Derval Igoe:

Basically, within the non-endemic countries, we would not really have had any cases at all to speak of. I will give the Deputy the figures. There were approximately 626 cases in endemic countries this year. It is perhaps important to say the deaths have been disproportionately in the endemic countries as opposed to the non-endemic countries, even as part of this outbreak this year. In non-endemic countries, there have been 26 deaths but in endemic countries, there have been-----

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