Contact tracing ongoing after rare mpox strain detected

Around 40 hospital staff had some contact with a man infected with a rare strain of the mpox virus. (Dan Peled/AAP PHOTOS)

Authorities fear the number of hospital contacts could grow as they trace health staff after a rare strain of mpox was detected in an overseas traveller.

Health officials in Queensland believe 19 community contacts and 40 staff at a hospital have been exposed to the man, who recently returned to Australia from Africa.