First Mpox Case Reported Outside Africa
The first case of the new, deadlier strain of mpox outside of Africa has been reported in Sweden. Taiwan's health ministry says it's monitoring the situation.
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00:00A new strain of Mpox has arrived outside Africa for the first time, with Sweden reporting
00:06its first case of the more deadly form of the disease.
00:10The diagnosis came just one day after the World Health Organization raised the disease's
00:15threat level to a public health emergency of international concern.
00:20The new variant has a fatality rate of 3.6 percent in Africa, 18 times that of the previous
00:26strain and has killed over 500 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone
00:32this year.
00:34Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control is closely monitoring the outbreak.