China said on Thursday it had recorded five cases of a new Mpox strain, but that the “outbreak has been effectively handled.” Mpox is caused by a virus transmitted to humans by animals but can also spread from person to person through close physical contact. It causes fever, muscular aches and large boil-like skin lesions,
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