The World Health Organization declared mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, a global public health emergency. A new form of the virus is rapidly spreading across Africa and cases have been detected in more than a dozen countries.
Sweden said on Thursday that it had confirmed a case of the more contagious version of mpox currently circulating in central and eastern Africa. It is the first known infection of the strain outside of Africa. On Wednesday, the World Health Organization declared mpox — formerly known as monkeypox — a global public health emergency for the second time in two years, following an outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo that has spread to 12 other countries in the region.
It's classified into two distinct viral groups, called clades: clade I and clade II. The strain that spread widely in 2022 and prompted the WHO's first public health emergency declaration was a version of clade II. The current outbreak, however, is a version of clade I, which is 'likely to be associated with a higher risk of a more severe course of disease and higher mortality,' according to the Public Health Agency of Sweden.
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