EU public health body lifts mpox risk alert level By Reuters

By Bhanvi Satija and Jennifer Rigby (Reuters) -The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) on Friday raised its risk level for mpox, a day after global health officials confirmed the first infection with a new strain of the virus outside Africa, in Sweden. The EU public health body’s head said there will be more imported cases of the new mpox strain in Europe in the coming…