EU raises MPOX risk level; cases found in Sweden and Pakistan

EU public health body lifts mpox risk alert level after new strain found in Sweden The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Friday raised its risk level for mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed one case of infection with a new strain of the virus in Sweden, the first outside Africa. Bhanvi Satija,Jennifer Rigby Reuters

Also see: Mpox virus detected in Pakistan, health authorities say

PESHAWAR, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Pakistan's health ministry has confirmed at least one case of the mpox virus in a patient who had returned from a Gulf country, it said on Friday, though they did not yet know the strain of the virus.

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