Audio By Vocalize Doctors tend to a patient suffering from COVID-19 and receiving oxygen, in a ward for coronavirus patients at the Martini hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. [AFP Photo] Across Africa, new threats to public health are on the rise, putting additional strain on the continent’s health systems, which are already overstretched. Here in East Africa, we’ve seen recent outbreaks of Marburg virus in Tanzania, Ebola flare-ups in Uganda, and recurrent cholera outbreaks across the region. This worrying trend extends across the continent: Disease outbreaks in Africa rose from 153 in 2022–2023 to 242 in…