CDC Issues Warning on More Severe Strain of Monkeypox – Covid Back Again?

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health alert on Thursday about the emergency of a more severe sub-variant of the monkeypox, or mpox, virus. The CDC issued an alert about the possibility of a subtype of the mpox virus called Clade I in travelers who have been in the Democratic Republic of Congo, adding that the clade is generally more infectious and leads to more severe infections than another subtype called Clade II. Clade I has not yet been reported in the United States at this time, the CDC added, saying that recent evidence has…