Overview
- The patient is a woman in her 20s who recently traveled to Central Africa and sought care in Kobe on September 12 with fever and rash.
- Genetic analysis identified the virus as Clade Ib, distinct from the Clade IIb lineage that spread globally in 2022.
- Kobe City reports no indications of wider transmission from this case, and the patient remains stable without hospitalization.
- Japan’s cumulative mpox tally rises to 255 confirmed cases, up from 254 reported as of September 12 that included one death.
- The Clade Ib wave has centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with the U.S. CDC citing over 40,000 infections and more than 100 deaths since last year, and WHO ended its emergency on September 5.