As We Watch A Great Man's Funeral Unfold, We See That China Has Reported Five Mpox Clade 1b Cases... A Traveler Returning From DRC Was Index Case.

Oof. More disconcerting news, this time in China.

Here's the latest, from Reuters overnight:

. . .China's Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said it had found a cluster outbreak of the Ib subclade that started with the infection a foreigner who has a history of travel and residence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Four further cases have been found in people infected after close contact with the foreigner. The patients' symptoms are mild and include skin rash and blisters. . . .

Now you know. And. . . travel well Mr. Carter -- but do travel light.

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