Mpox causes a painful rash with skin lesions that can last for two-to-four weeks, as well as other symptoms including fever, headache, aches, back pain, low energy and swollen lymph nodes. Mpox clade Ib first emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a subtype of clade I, a more severe form of mpox […]
Mpox causes a painful rash with skin lesions that can last for two-to-four weeks, as well as other symptoms including fever, headache, aches, back pain, low energy and swollen lymph nodes.
Mpox clade Ib first emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a subtype of clade I, a more severe form of mpox than clade II — the latter was behind the global outbreak in 2022.
There were more than 50,000 suspected cases and over 1,000 deaths in Africa from mpox last year.
