It’s not yet certain which animals are the natural carriers. But, based on the available evidence, it is thought to be ...

The UK has seen cases of mpox since then, mainly caused by clade 2, a strain that spreads through close skin-to-skin contact ...

Since the current outbreak of mpox clade I began in eastern DR Congo in 2023, there has been a rapid increase in cases, primarily in DR Congo, and spread of the monkeypox virus to other countries in ...

Mpox strains are still mutating, further raising the risk of spread both in Africa and globally, Africa Centres for Disease ...

A case of a new strain of mpox ... Clade 1b has been detected in the UK. Germany reported its first Clade 1b case earlier this month. At least 1,000 deaths from the strain had been reported across ...

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said the risk to the UK population from the Clade Ib mpox strain “remains low”. The person involved had been on holiday in Africa and travelled back to ...

The Royal Free Hospital in London (Alamy/PA) They had recently travelled to countries in Africa that are seeing community cases of Clade Ib mpox, the UKHSA said. The UKHSA said existing evidence ...

The Royal Free Hospital in London (Alamy/PA) They had recently travelled to countries in Africa that are seeing community cases of Clade Ib mpox, the UKHSA said. The UKHSA said existing evidence ...

The first case of a new infectious and potentially deadly strain of mpox has been reported in the UK. The strain, known as Clade Ib ... declared outbreaks in Africa a global emergency.

The UKHSA says it will not reveal any more information about the patient, but confirmed they had travelled to countries in Africa “that are seeing community cases of Clade 1b mpox.” ...

Britain has detected its first case of new mpox variant clade Ib, the country's health ... of Congo spread to neighboring countries in Africa. The case, in a patient who had recently traveled ...