Officials warn dangerous new monkeypox strain set for 'cross-border infection'

The new strain is spreading and may cross borders, officials have warned. (Image: Getty) Officials have issued an urgent warning that a dangerous new strain of monkeypox "shows no sign of slowing" and could soon spread to new countries. The Democratic Republic of Congo has become a hotspot for the strain, known as clade 1b, with at least 25 reported cases popping up in one of its major cities.

Simultaneously, the country is also struggling to control strain clade 1, which kills up to 10 percent of those infected, the majority of whom have been children. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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