Patient came from Africa
New Mpox variant detected for the first time in the USA
A case of a new Mpox variant has been detected for the first time in the USA. The US health authority CDC announced on Saturday that the patient was a person who had recently traveled from East Africa to California.
Kronen Zeitung als bevorzugte Google-Quelle hinzufügen The patient was treated in the USA after his return and isolated himself at home. The symptoms are currently improving. According to the CDC, this is clade I of the virus.
Clade Ib has probably been rampant in the Congo since September 2023. The WHO suspects that the pathogen has adapted to this host during its spread among humans.
Also already detected in Germany
Only recently, new Mpox variant clade Ib was also detected in Germany for the first time. The Robert Koch Institute reported the first confirmed case of the disease in our neighboring country in October.
Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has been a health problem in parts of Africa since 1970. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency for ten months in 2022 due to the spread of the disease.
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