Monkey Pox

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Whatever information we have right now is incomplete. Where did this come from? And what stimulated a different number of cases in different countries was te common source? That information is important for the world. We've put lynks to our coverage of the monkey pok outbreaks on the podcast web page at the guardian dot com. See you then.

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