New mutant strain of mpox with ‘pandemic potential’ discovered as health chiefs call for ‘urgent measures’
AN outbreak of a new mpox virus with 'pandemic potential' has broken out near an international airport raising fears it could spread to Europe.It's also more deadly, with a fatality rate of around five per cent in adults and 10 per cent in children, compared to three per cent for its predecessor.
"Pathogens don’t recognise borders," Ben Oppenheim, a global health experts and senior director of US company Concentric by Ginkgo, told the Sun. In fact, the virus is already crossing borders, Trudie Lang, professor of global health research at Oxford University, added.
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