Health officials have confirmed the first detected case of a new strain of monkey pox (mpox) in the United States.
The clade I strain, which was first reported in the eastern Congo earlier this year, was found in a traveler who had returned from eastern Africa to northern California, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said on Saturday.
There is currently an ongoing outbreak of the new mpox strain in central and eastern Africa, spreading mostly through sexual transmission as well as through close contact among children, pregnant women, and other vulnerable groups.
Other countries to report cases of the clade I strain include Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, India, Thailand, Kenya, and Zimbabwe….