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Health authorities warned Europe Friday to get ready for more cases of a deadly strain of mpox that has killed hundreds of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The World Health Organization has declared the ongoing outbreaks of mpox in Congo and elsewhere in Africa to be a global emergency, requiring urgent action to curb the virus’ transmission

Mpox, which is now considered a public health emergency, is typically mild but can be fatal

"The West only gets concerned about controlling epidemics when we start seeing cases, and then it is almost always too late to eradicate the infection."

Sequencing of confirmed case under way to determine whether virus is same deadly Clade 1 variant discovered by Sweden.

HEALTH authorities in the UK have started to prepare for any potential cases of a deadlier and more contagious variant of the mpox virus ...

China will monitor people and goods entering the country for mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, for the next six months, its customs administration said on Friday, after the WHO designated the outbreak a global public health emergency earlier this week. Pakistan on Friday confirmed the first case in Asia of…

World health authorities are increasingly alarmed by the latest mpox outbreak, driven by a more lethal and infectious variant than the strain behind the 2022 outbreak – with this new version predominantly affecting children.

The WHO on Thursday warned further imported cases of the new, more dangerous mpox strain in Europe were likely, after Sweden announced the first such infection outside Africa in an outbreak that has killed hundreds in the DR Congo.