Mpox outbreak 2024: Five countries tighten border screening as new variant spreads
Visitors to some countries could be quarantined if they show mpox symptoms (Picture: AFP)
Several Asian nations are toughening their border controls in response to a new deadlier variant of the mpox virus.
Two cases of the strain, known as Clade 1b, were detected in Sweden and Thailand respectively over the past ten days.
They are the first two confirmed cases outside of Africa, where an outbreak which started in the Democratic Republic of Congo last year has spread to neighbouring countries, claiming hundreds of lives.
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