WHO ‘worried’ about mpox spread in DRC, Reuters reports

The World Health Organization is “very worried” about the spread of an mpox strain that has killed nearly 600 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year, Reuters’ Jennifer Rigby reports, citing a senor official. The WHO is working with the authorities on the response and a risk assessment, and the CDC on Thursday issued an alert about the dangerous clade I mpox outbreak. “The virus variant is known to be more virulent. If it adapts better to human to human transmission, that presents a risk,” Rosamund Lewis, WHO’s mpox lead, told Reuters.