A research team made up of Canadian scientists and researchers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has documented the first known cases of a deadlier strain of mpox spreading through sexual contact.
A joint Canadian-DRC research team, co-led by Jason Kindrachuk from the University of Manitoba, has documented what he calls a 'massive red flag': the first known cases of a deadlier strain of the mpox virus that is spreading through sexual contact. If 2022 was the year mpox infections exploded globally, 2023 was the year much of the world stopped paying attention.
There are two main forms of mpox virus: clade I and clade II. The global outbreak in 2022 involved clade IIb, which typically leads to milder illness. By year's end there had been roughlyafter the virus spread widely through sexual networks, with the majority of the cases among men who have sex with men.
Followup investigations also looked at other possible transmission chains involving 120 additional contacts — including other sexual contacts and family members — but none of those individuals developed mpox during 21 days of follow up. Though WHO ended its emergency designation for mpox in May, and case reporting in many regions has been scaled back since then, hundreds of clade IIb cases were still reported across dozens of countries this fall.
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