: a group of biological taxa (such as species) that includes all descendants of one common ancestor
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Recent Examples on the WebThe Congo Basin clade has a high case fatality rate, roughly 10%, in Africa. Helen Branswell, STAT, 29 May 2022 The Congo Basin clade can cause death in as many as 1 in 10 people who contract the disease, the World Health Organization said. Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022 The clade of monkeypox virus spreading in the multinational outbreak is historically thought to have a fatality rate of up to 3 percent in endemic countries. Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2022 But a different lineage of the virus, the Congo Basin clade, has killed closer to 10 percent, according to the World Health Organization. Aria Bendix, NBC News, 21 May 2022 The West African clade, the one now circulating around the world, is less severe. Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022 The two new strains previously reported by U.S. health officials were also said to belong to the West African clade. Erin Prater, Fortune, 6 July 2022 In the Nigerian outbreak in 2017 (West African clade), mortality was as high as 3%. Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022 The less severe West African clade has a fatality rate of less than 1%. Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 June 2022 See More