Vaccines - What's Going on in Africa?

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Any new viral outbreak catches our attention, even if it's just a small number of cases like we're currently seeing in the uk. Countries in africa have been dealing with outbreaks of monkey poxfor for years now. I'm wondering what we can learn from how it's dealt with there,. Or all the research indeed, that's been going on there. But as i said, for no investigation is going on in all different countries. A wo verget better.

The sudden surge of monkeypox cases outside Africa has alarmed public health authorities around the world. In Europe and North America it’s the first time community transmission has been recorded among people with no links to west or central Africa. So what is happening? Ian Sample talks to virologist Oyewale Tomori about why monkeypox is flaring up, whether we should fear it, and what we can learn from countries such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have been tackling this virus for decades. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod