Health
Asia Prepares For Mpox Cases After Sweden Finds Dangerous Strain
- Travelers from affected countries face heightened surveillance
- Pakistan, Philippines detect cases likely linked to 2b strain
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Asian countries from China to Pakistan have beefed up surveillance for a mutated monkeypox virus that’s spreading outside central Africa, where it prompted the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency this month.
A case in Sweden last week highlights the international threat from the so-called 1B strain that’s reported to have killed more than 500 people, mostly children, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Across Asia, travelers arriving from affected countries are being asked to self-report symptoms, while hospitals heighten surveillance for the disease.