The ‘most commonly missed’ symptoms of monkeypox revealed – as killer new clade spreads

MPOX cases have been surging in Africa, with the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently declaring the outbreak a “public health emergency of international concern”.

The strain, named clade 1b, emerged in the Democratic Republic of Congo and since then more than 18,000 suspected cases and over 600 deaths have been recorded in the country this year.