WHO Declares Global Emergency over New Mpox Outbreak
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> Until recently, it spread mainly through consumption of contaminated meat or close contact with infected animals and people. Most of the deaths have been in children, who in this region of Africa are already beset by malnutrition and infectious diseases like cholera, measles and polio.
> Should the outbreak spread globally, children in developed countries are likely to be less vulnerable to severe illness, experts have said.
> Last year, for the first time, scientists discovered sexual transmission of this version of mpox, with cases split about equally among young men and women. According to genetic analyses, sometime around September, the virus gained mutations that enabled it to spread more readily among people. It has done so partly through heterosexual prostitution.
When, who and why did its name change?
Formally means the opposite, and I had to check the article to check what you meant.