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Avian Flu Diary: California DPH Reports First Known U.S. Case of Emerging Mpox Strain

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2024-11-17 15:30:03

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Just over 2 weeks ago the UK became the 5th non-African nation to report an imported case of the recently emerged clade Ib Mpox virus, and the first non-African nation to report local transmission (3 housemates). 

To date, only five countries outside of Africa have detected clade Ib MPXV: Sweden, Thailand and Germany have each detected one case of mpox due to clade Ib MPXV in travellers from Africa, the United Kingdom has four cases of clade Ib MPXV – one case is a traveller from East Africa and three are household contacts of the traveller – and India has detected one case of clade Ib MPXV in a traveller from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). No case of clade Ib MPXV has been reported so far by the UAE.

 In Africa, countries in western, northern and southern Africa have reported clade II MPXV, countries in central and eastern Africa have reported clade I MPXV, and Cameroon has reported both clades – clade I in the eastern part of the country and clade II in the west. 

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