Post Reply - Philippines first Mpox case

   https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/19/philippines-reports-new-mpox-case-with-no-history-of-foreign-travel or https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/19/philippines-reports-new-mpox-case-with-no-history-of-foreign-travel ;The Philippines has reported a new case of the mpox virus, the first in the country since December.
Health officials said on Monday that the patient, a 33-year-old Filipino male from capital Manila, has no history of foreign travel.
“The mpox virus is among us. This is a warning to everybody,” Health Secretary Teddy Herbosa told reporters, noting that nine cases of the virus were also detected in 2023.
DJ, So this must mean Mpox-1b is spreading in the Manilla region....
Officials are still awaiting the sequencing of the results of the test to determine what type of strain has been detected in the country.

DJ...???? Is it clade 1B or not ? Also Sweden and Pakistan came with "unclear info"....(Pakistan case NOT clade 1B????)
However the general picture may be clade 1B of Mpox now spreading in Europe and Asia...very likely (via air travel-free virus spreading...) Mpox-1B already is a global issue...