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European CDC Warns More Imported Mpox Cases Coming, Raises Risk Alert Level

Europe’s disease prevention agency has warned that more cases of a severe mpox strain spreading in Africa are ‘highly likely’ to reach Europe.
European CDC Warns More Imported Mpox Cases Coming, Raises Risk Alert Level
Health care workers put on personal protective equipment at an intensive care unit at Thomayer hospital, in Prague, Czech Republic, on Oct. 14, 2020. Michal Cizek/AFP/Getty Images
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
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Europe’s disease prevention agency has warned that more imported cases of a more severe strain of mpox, currently circulating in Africa, are “highly likely” in Europe in the coming weeks.

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said in an Aug. 16 statement that it has raised its risk alert level for sporadic cases of the clade I mpox—formerly monkeypox—virus in the 27 European Union (EU) member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway, to “moderate.”
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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