A fifth mpox case has been detected in England, with the infected individual under "specialist care" after flying in from Uganda.

A patient in Leeds was found to have the Clade IB Mpox strain. It is a new form of the virus linked to a global health emergency declared by the World Health Organization in August.

The UK Health Security Agency said the risk to the population remained low.

The patient remains in specialist care Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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They arrived in the UK after taking a plane home from Uganda, which is seeing community transmission of mpox, the Government agency said.

The new case takes the number up to five confirmed in England in recent weeks. The unidentified patient had no links to the previous four cases.