The person was infected during a visit to the part of Africa where there is a major outbreak of the virus, state epidemiologist Magnus Gisslen says.
Sweden says it has "a preparedness to diagnose, isolate and treat people with mpox safely". / Photo: AP
The country's public health agency confirmed on Thursday that it was the same strain of the virus that has surged in the Democratic Republic of Congo since September 2023, known as the Clade 1b subclade.
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