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Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again?

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Mutation Rate for a Dn a Virus?

This is a d ana virus. We would expect probably like, one to two or so a year,. Bum, but bum, a b or two. Aha, do we have available data to kind of look at that same trend with other monkey pock strains in the past? Um, fascinating question. Aaron, as far as i can tell, i don't think so. Not yet. But there's a lot of thought just based on ... comparing the mutations in this virus to the way that other viruses mutate, specially zoonatic viruses. Remember that this has primarily been a no animal to human spill over type virus. So there is thought that perhaps this is the result

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