Singapore: 2024 Mpox

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Source: https://thesun.my/world/singapore-sa...024-KC12897782

Singapore says it has detected 13 cases of mpox Clade 2 infection in 2024
Reuters
23-08- 2024 08:34 AM

SINGAPORE: Singapore has detected 13 cases of mpox Clade 2 infections this year, the health ministry said in a bulletin on Thursday.

To date, all mpox infections in the city state have been the “less severe” Clade 2 infections, it added...

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Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business...-strain-cases/

Singapore to Quarantine Close Contacts of Newer Mpox Strain Cases
By Karoline Kan
September 04, 2024 at 4:06AM EDT

(Bloomberg) -- Singapore will mandate a three-week quarantine at a designated facility if close contacts of patients infected with the new mpox strain are identified, as the city-state re-introduces Covid-era curbs in a bid to prevent local spread of the mutated virus.

The health ministry will begin contact-tracing once an infection with the more dangerous clade I mpox strain is confirmed, and the case’s close contacts will be placed in a designated government facility for 21 days, which is the incubation period observed in Africa, according to a statement Wednesday.

The city-state hasn’t yet detected the more lethal clade I strain that prompted the World Health Organization in mid-August to declare mpox a global public health emergency, and all 14 mpox cases found in Singapore so far this year were caused by the milder IIb variant....