Africa: Uptick in Mpox Cases Raises Concern Among Health Officials

[IPS] United Nations — Yesterday, India’s Federal Health Ministry reported the nation’s first documented case of mpox. The infected individual was reported to have contracted the clade Ib strain of the virus, which is a far deadlier variant than the more common clade II. This development has raised considerable concern among health officials around the world as the mpox epidemic had been contained in the Democratic Republic of Congo until recently.



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