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IN a risk assessment last week, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), called the increase of imported Mpox cases from African countries ‘highly likely’, raising alarms at the tail end of a season that’s seen outbreaks of a handful of deadly tropical diseases in Spain.  A new, highly transmissible strain of the mpox virus known as ‘clade …

SPAIN’S Health Ministry will chair a special meeting on Monday to discuss the rise in mpox cases in the country. Representatives will attend from the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies, the National Epidemiology Centre, the National Microbiology Centre, and the Health Ministry’s HIV and Vaccines Division. Also on Monday, Spain will take part in a gathering of the EU …

THE World Health Organisation has today declared an international health emergency over mpox. Cases of the virus, previously known as monkeypox, are growing at an alarming rate in Africa, the WHO said today. It comes after Spain was revealed to have the highest number of cases in Europe last week, with 16 new cases declared in the last month alone. …