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Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer

Nature talks to infectious-disease specialists about whether vaccines will curb this outbreak and more.
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When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a public-health emergency over mpox earlier this month, it was because a concerning form of the virus that causes the disease had spread to multiple African countries where it had never been seen before. Since then, two people travelling to Africa — one from Sweden and one from Thailand — have become infected with that type of virus, called clade Ib, and brought it back to their countries.

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Nature 633, 16-17 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02793-9

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