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How dangerous is the mpox public health emergency?

Authorities are rushing to contain latest outbreak fuelled by a more dangerous type of the virus
More than 17,000 suspected cases of mpox and 500 deaths have been recorded so far across Africa

The World Health Organization’s declaration of a public health emergency for mpox is the second such alert on the infectious disease in barely two years — and experts fear this one is even more serious.

The latest outbreak, centred on Democratic Republic of Congo and identified in about a dozen African countries, is driven by the more severe clade 1 type of the virus. Sweden this week reported the first clade 1 case outside Africa.

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