Global health officials on Thursday confirmed an infection with a new strain of the mpox virus in Sweden and linked it to a growing outbreak in Africa, the first sign of its spread outside the ...

The new mpox strain is called clade 1. Historically, the mortality rate for people infected with clade 1 is between 5% and 10%. That’s deadlier than the 1% to 3% mortality rate for clade 2, ...

The new clade 1b strain has caused concern because it seems to spread more easily through routine close contact, and it is affecting women and children in larger numbers. It is fatal in about 3.6% ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared mpox to be a public health emergency of international concern on Monday as a newer strain spreads in Africa.

Similar to the prior mpox outbreak of 2022 (clade II), the new strain, clade 1b, is highly transmissible, spread by both sexual contact and routine close contact. Still, experts say the risk of ...

The deadly new strain of mpox which has ripped through several African nations has officially reached the UK, health officials revealed yesterday. The clade 1b mutation, which experts have called ...

Mpox not the new COVID, says WHO. World Health Organization official says regardless of strain, mpox is not the new COVID, as authorities know how to control its spread.

The New York State Department of Health issued a health advisory about the emergence of a new strain of mpox (formerly monkeypox). The person had recently traveled from Africa.

Two years after containing the first global mpox outbreak, the world faces a new challenge: a more virulent strain that’s already killed more than 900 people.

The first case of a new mpox strain was confirmed in New York state. AP A health worker takes a saliva sample from a mpox patient at a treatment center in Munigi, eastern Congo, Aug. 16, 2024.

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