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Exclusive: As cases of Mpox, West Nile virus and now SLOTH fever rise in Spain – how worried we should REALLY be? Health experts give their verdict

August 25, 2024 Health and Beauty 0

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 …