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Health officials have analysed what could happen if the more dangerous and transmissible clade 1b variant of mpox spreads to the UK.

The 2009 swine flu strain arose from the recombination of several strains over years to become more transmissible in humans.

“There is no information at present to suggest that this virus is inherently more transmissible.”

The virus is particularly deadly to poultry, and highly transmissible.

Whether this exchange made the virus more transmissible isn’t clear, Naveca says.