Mpox: Warning over ‘highly infectious’ new variant identified in Congo - The global community needs to ‘step up’ to prevent ...
In other developments, the recently identified clade 1a virus that has the APOBEC3 mutation, linked to more transmissibility, ...
The mpox virus is currently rampaging through the Democratic Republic of Congo, with 2,000 cases since the start of the year ...
Clade 1a is the older clade that has been linked to spillovers in animals and some limited human-to-human transmission in ...
A NEW mutant strain of mpox discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo could be better at spreading between people, ...
Health officials have raised alarms over a newly identified, highly transmissible mpox variant, suspected of driving a surge ...
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has announced the continuation of mpox as a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS), following recommendations from ...
The new strain is a mutation of Clade 1a mpox – an older variant that has been known to cause more severe disease than Clade 2, which caused a global outbreak in 2022, or Clade 1b, which has ...
Just a year later, however, a new two-pronged epidemic broke out mainly in the DR Congo, with both the original clade 1a strain and a new strain, clade 1b. This prompted the WHO's new emergency ...