Sweden thinks imported cases of the deadlier form, which can kill up to 10 per cent of people, may continue to occur.
officials say they have identified the first case of a person with the more infectious form of mpox first seen in eastern Congo, a day after the
The Swedish public health agency said in a statement the patient recently sought health care in Stockholm. "In this case a person has been infected during a stay in the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of ," the agency said on Thursday .Swedish health officials say they have identified the first case of a person with the more infectious form of mpox first seen in eastern Congo Magnus Gisslen, a state epidemiologist with the Swedish health agency, said the person had been treated and given "rules of conduct".
"The fact that a patient with mpox is treated in the country does not affect the risk to the general population," Swedish officials said, adding that experts estimate that risk to be "very low".Earlier this year, scientists reported the emergence of a new form of the deadlier form of mpox, which can kill up to 10 per cent of people, in a Congolese mining town that they feared might spread more easily.
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