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So to your point about H5N1, with the mortality being so high, it's possible that the traditional presentation was the sickest that presented, and that we are starting to see a different population.

Suspected case-patients, one of them a woman who became ill while pregnant, have links to the western part of Uganda.

Brazil has reported its first clade 1b mpox case, per a notice from the national Health Ministry.

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