Sweden on Thursday recorded the first case outside Africa of the new, more contagious variant of mpox linked to the Congo epidemic, which the World Health Organization (WHO) a day earlier declared a global public health emergency.
A person was diagnosed with the disease in Stockholm after returning from a stay in a part of Africa that is experiencing an outbreak of the disease, Sweden’s public health agency said.
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A drug used in the last global mpox outbreak in 2022-23 is not effective against the more severe virus spreading rapidly in Africa, researchers have found.
The antiviral, tecovirimat, did not reduce the duration of lesions among children and adults with clade I mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the initial results of a placebo-controlled trial run by researchers in the DRC and the U.S.