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A new case of severe mpox variant Clade Ib has been detected in England, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has warned. It was detected in East Sussex after a person recently returned from ...
Located in East Sussex, it is the sixth case of ‘clade 1’ mpox detected in the UK since October 2024. ... Since 2022, cases of mpox have been reported to WHO from 127 countries across the ...
The first UK case of a potentially deadly strain of the mpox virus has been detected in London.. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the risk to the UK population from the clade 1b mpox ...
In late May, cases started to be reported in the other constituent countries, with Public Health Scotland reporting its first case on 23 May. [16] [17] Public Health Wales and the Public Health Agency of Northern Ireland each reported one case on 26 May. [16] [18] [19] On 1 June, a case was reported in Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory. [20]
All four patients belong to the same household, the UK Health Security Agency said.
As British health authorities reported the first case of mpox in the UK in May 2022, the Nigerian government released information and statistics on reported cases and deaths in the country: The report of 9 May 2022 stated that between 2017 and 2022 there were 230 confirmed cases across 20 states and the Federal Capital Territory. Rivers State ...
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]
The two cases were detected in household contacts of the first case, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the UK to three.