MAP - The type of mpox spreading rapidly through several African countries could arrive in Canada, where that strain hasn't appeared before, Canadian experts say. The detection of clade I mpox in Sweden in someone who had travelled to an affected African country is a "harbinger" of broader spread, said Dr. Fahad Razak, an internal medicine specialist and epidemiologist at St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto. The Public Health Agency of Sweden said it is the first case of clade I mpox to be diagnosed outside the African continent. The Canadian Press has prepared a map looking at the number reported mpox cases in the WHO African region from Jan. 2022 through June 2024. This accompanies Mpox-Sweden-Canada; THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Vokey