Sweden has reported the first confirmed case outside Africa of the more deadly mpox variant that sparked the World Health Organization to declare a global public health emergency a day earlier.
The person was infected during a stay in a part of Africa affected by the mpox outbreak, a statement from the Public Health Agency of Sweden said today. “This case does not warrant any further infection control measures per se, but we take the outbreak of mpox clade I very seriously. We are monitoring it closely and continuously assessing whether new measures are needed,” Magnus Gisslén, Sweden’s state epidemiologist said.
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