Monkeypox: Should You Be Worried?
The Owen Jones Podcast
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Do You Think It Has Mutated? Or Could It Mutate?
There are signs that there is some genetic difference from this virus relative to the earlier strains t hat hit the uk. There's also talk of quarantine, quarrantining people's pets, guinea pigs, or even destroying them. The fear is that if we don't contain this outbreak early, er, we may eventually stop community transmission but if the virus gets into the animal population of the u k, it'll always be around and able to pop back into human so we don't take any extreme measures.
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