The first case of the new, deadlier strain of mpox outside of Africa has been reported in Sweden. Taiwan's health ministry says it's monitoring the situation.
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00:00A new strain of Mpox has arrived outside Africa for the first time, with Sweden reporting
00:06its first case of the more deadly form of the disease.
00:10The diagnosis came just one day after the World Health Organization raised the disease's
00:15threat level to a public health emergency of international concern.
00:20The new variant has a fatality rate of 3.6 percent in Africa, 18 times that of the previous
00:26strain and has killed over 500 people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone
00:32this year.
00:34Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control is closely monitoring the outbreak.