Europe warned to prepare for mpox as Pakistan reports first case

China said it would screen travellers for the disease after the first cases of the new, more deadly strain to be recorded outside Africa were announced in Sweden and Pakistan.

Patients wait outside the consultation room of the Mpox treatment centre at the Nyiragongo general reference hospital, north of the town of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on August 16, 2024. (Photo by GUERCHOM NDEBO / AFP)