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A deadly new variant of the Mpox virus has been detected in the UK after months of growing concerns as it spread through countries in Africa, and was detected in Europe and Asia.. The UK Health ...
“The current upsurge of Mpox in parts of Africa, along with the spread of a new sexually transmissible strain of the monkeypox virus, is an emergency, not only for Africa, but for the entire ...
Two strains of mpox are now spreading in Congo - the endemic form of the virus, clade I, and a new offshoot called clade Ib, with the term 'clade' referring to a form of the virus.
The virus enters the body through broken skin, or mucosal surfaces such as the mouth, respiratory tract, or genitals. [1] Mpox can be transmitted from one person to another through contact with infectious lesion material or fluid on the skin, in the mouth or on the genitals; this includes touching, close contact, and during sex.
Mpox is an infectious disease caused by the monkeypox virus. It typically causes a rash and flu-like symptoms, including body aches, fever, chills, headache and fatigue, though it can be fatal ...
The mpox virus is endemic (meaning ever-present) there, but infections have surged this year, driven by a deadlier variant of the virus than the one that began spreading in the U.S. in 2022.
Testing of patient swab samples by polymerase chain reaction revealed clade II of monkeypox virus, [1] which is the less deadly of the two known monkeypox virus variants with a case fatality rate of around 1%. [68] The genomic sequence of the virus associated with this outbreak was first published on 19 May by Portuguese researchers. [69]
An epidemic of a new variant of clade I mpox (formerly known as monkeypox), called clade 1b, [2] began in Central Africa at least as early as September 2023. [3] [4] As of September 2024, more than 29,000 cases have been reported, with over 800 fatalities (~3% fatality rate), [1] nearly all in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [5]