The person had recently returned to California after traveling to eastern Africa, where the strain (clade I mpox) has affected several countries, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The risk of clade I mpox to the public remains low, the agency said. The person diagnosed with clade I mpox had recently traveled from Eastern Africa, where an mpox outbreak is ongoing.

A deadlier strain of the virus, clade Ib, is spreading quickly in the Democratic Republic of Congo and has reached at least four previously unaffected countries in Africa. The risk of additional ...

There are two subtypes of the mpox virus. Clade II, which is endemic in West Africa, caused the global outbreak that had health authorities on high alert in Europe and North America in 2022.

The first case of mpox clade I was found in California, but the risk to the public remains low, public health officials said Saturday. There are two types of mpox, clade I and clade II ...

The ongoing African outbreak is driven by versions of the virus known as clade 1, including the offshoot clade 1b. Those versions have been associated with more severe illness and deaths than the ...

This was in response to a large ongoing outbreak of clade I of mpox — a clade is an evolutionary branch — in the Democratic Republic of Congo, or DRC, that has spread to other African nations.

SINGAPORE, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Singapore has detected 13 cases of mpox Clade 2 infections this year, the health ministry said in a bulletin on Thursday. To date, all mpox infections in the city ...

The Clade Ib version of the virus had not been detected outside Africa until last week, when a case in Sweden raised concerns about a wider outbreak. By Sui-Lee Wee Health officials in Thailand ...