Read previewA deadly and fast-spreading new strain of mpox, the disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has global health officials ringing alarm bells.
The new virus is called clade Ib, since it's a mutation of an even earlier form of mpox.
AdvertisementThe new clade Ib virus could cause a global outbreak, experts fear, though they stopped short of warning of a pandemic.
"The pandemic question is difficult," Trudie Lang, director of the Global Health Network at Oxford University, said in the briefing.
The new clade Ib strain seems to do it all.
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