Important Takeaways:

• “In this case, a person was infected during a stay in the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of (the more infectious mpox formerly known as monkeypox),” the Public Health Agency of Sweden announced on Thursday.
• Magnus Gisslen, a state epidemiologist with the Swedish health agency, said the person had been treated and given “rules of conduct.”
• The U.N. health agency said there have been more than 14,000 cases and 524 deaths this year, which already exceed last year’s figures.
• So far, more than 96% of all cases and deaths are in Congo.
• Earlier this year, scientists identified a highly contagious form of mpox, which can kill up to 10% of people.
• Scientists in Europe have maintained that although mpox is transmittable and highly contagious, advanced health care in Sweden and other rich countries can stop the transmission before it becomes an epidemic.

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