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Alingo Likaka Manasse, head nurse at the Yalanga Health Centre, examines lesions on the hands of Lituka Wenda Dety, 41, who is suffering from mpox, in Yakusu, Tshopo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, October 2, 2022..
Dec 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert on Thursday to notify clinicians and health departments about a deadly type of the mpox virus spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...
The CDC said it was alerting about the possibility of a subtype of the mpox virus called Clade I in travelers who have been in DRC...
Recent evidence has shown for the first time Clade I can be transmitted through sexual contact, which has proved to be the main transmission mode for the less deadly strain of the disease that broke out globally last year, chiefly among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men...
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