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WHO says mpox cases in Congo’s epicenter where the new variant was detected may be ‘plateauing’

AP Cases of mpox in the region of Congo where a new and more infectious variant was first detected appear to be “plateauing,” the World Health Organization said on Monday, even as the virus continues to increase in other areas of the country, as well as in Burundi and Uganda.

A report by the U.N. health agency said the number of mpox infections “shows a general rising trend,” but that they may have plateaued in South Kivu, where the more infectious form of mpox was first identified to be spreading earlier this year among sex workers and miners in the gold mining town of Kamituga.

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