Anonymous20 days ago
New York City has confirmed its first case of mpox clade I — a more severe strain with a fatality rate several times higher than the clade II variant behind the 2022 global outbreak — in a patient who recently traveled to Europe. The diagnosis, the twelfth clade I case in the United States, arrives as the virus establishes local transmission chains in Western Europe and a new recombinant strain combining elements of two clades has been detected in the UK and India, raising questions about diagnostic adequacy and vaccination coverage among the roughly 2 million at-risk Americans who remain largely unvaccinated.