PESHAWAR: The health department in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a northern province of Pakistan, announced that three people have been found with the mpox virus. Pakistan has had cases of mpox, also called monkeypox, previously. It was not immediately clear which variant was detected in the patients.
The World Health Organization has called the recent outbreak of mpox a global health emergency because a new variant of the virus has been discovered.
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These patients were diagnosed with the virus after travelling outside the country. Further details are awaited.
-Agencies
