Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Mpox Clade 1b Update: Now A Case In Germany… Over 42,000 Worldwide Afflicted


The more dangerous variant has now appeared in at least 18 African nations.

Troublingly, the vaccine roll out has suffered fits and starts. By my count, we are now at a dozen non-African geographies, with one or more Clade 1b patients.

Here is the latest, from ABC News, reporting:

. . .Germany's disease control center said Tuesday that a new, more infectious variant of the mpox virus has been detected in Germany for the first time.

The Robert Koch Institute said the person was infected abroad but didn't give any further details, including on where the case was being treated. . . .

The first case of the mpox virus variant outside the African continent was confirmed in Sweden in mid-August. . . .

The World Health Organization has declared that the increasing spread of mpox in Africa is a global health emergency. . . .


Now you know. . . and as we've long said. . . we are all each other's keepers. Onward.

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