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The World Health Organization declared mpox to be a global health threat for the second time in three years .
A surge of mpox cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a growing number of African countries raised concern about the potential for a larger outbreak.
A new, deadlier viral strain is responsible for many of those cases.
There are no known cases of that viral strain in the U.S ..
Clade 1 appears to spread through close contact and especially through sexual transmission.
Some reports show that many people who got sick with the new strain in the DRC are sex workers and women.
There’s no confirmed evidence of widespread transmission of clade 1 between heterosexual people in DRC and that the risk to that group in the U.S ..
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