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The vaccine currently available in the UK tackles the Clade 2 variant of Mpox - which spread through the UK in 2022-2023. It is 70 to 85 percent effective if given to people before they receive ...
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the risk to the UK population from the clade 1b mpox strain “remains low”. The person involved had been on holiday in Africa and travelled back to ...
What is Clade 1b mpox? Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox , is a viral infection that spreads through close person to person contact. There are different strains of the virus, but the two major ...
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 2022–2023 mpox outbreak in the United Kingdom is part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade (type) of the monkeypox virus.The United Kingdom was the first country, outside of the endemic African areas, to experience an outbreak.
The first UK case of the clade 1b mpox strain was detected on 30 October via PCR test in a person who had been on holiday in Africa and travelled back to the UK on an overnight flight nine days prior.
Mpox (/ ˈ ɛ m p ɒ k s /, EM-poks; formerly known as monkeypox) [6] is an infectious viral disease that can occur in humans and other animals. Symptoms include a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over, fever, and swollen lymph nodes.
Germany’s first case of new clade 1b variant ... Mpox typically spreads through sexual contact and symptoms generally ... In the UK, there were a total of 286 cases of mpox reported in 2023 and ...