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Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert

Scientists are trying to understand why the virus, a less-lethal relative of smallpox, has cropped up in so many populations around the world.
  1. Max Kozlov
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More than 120 confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox, a rare viral disease seldom detected outside Africa, have been reported in at least 11 non-African countries in the past week. The emergence of the virus in separate populations around the world, in locations where it doesn’t usually appear has alarmed scientists — and sent them racing for answers.

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Nature 606, 15-16 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01421-8

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