Sweden confirms first case of mpox variant clade 1b

A contagious new form of the mpox virus has been reported outside Africa for the first time, hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a global public health emergency.

Sweden said that it had seen the first case in Europe of the clade 1b form of the disease, which has killed more than 500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and appears to be more virulent than the clade 2 strain that has caused outbreaks in the West — including the UK — in recent years.

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