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By Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas A worrying new strain of monkeypox with “pandemic potential” has been discovered by scientists. Researchers have called for “swift action” from the international community to avoid another outbreak of the virus, which is now officially known as mpox. It comes after a study tracked a new outbreak in a mining town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Authorities in the country have for the latest been battling a variant of mpox called “clade 1” for around a year. This variant is thought to kill 10% of all people who become infected – and researchers have now uncovered a…

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