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A person in Sweden has tested positive for the more infectious form of mpox which was first found in DR Congo, making it the first known case outside Africa, according to Swedish health officials. It comes just a day after WHO declared it a global emergency. The patient sought care in the Stockholm region after staying in a part of Africa which is experiencing a major outbreak of the new strain of mpox, which was previously known as monkeypox. Specific details were not released. “This case does not require any additional infection control measures in itself, but we take the outbreak of clade I…

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