Science: “The sudden appearance of monkeypox in 13 countries on four continents has jolted the public health community into action. A much milder cousin of smallpox that sporadically causes small outbreaks in Africa, monkeypox is thought to spread slowly and is unlikely to be a pandemic in the making. But scientists worry about the spread among men who have sex with men, who make up a disproportionate number of the cases so far.”
“The outbreak is a strange and unsettling return to the spotlight for poxviruses, a largely forgotten threat since the World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated in 1980.”
South China Morning Post: “The World Health Organization does not have evidence that the monkeypox virus has mutated… noting the infectious disease that has been endemic in west and central Africa has tended not to change.”
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