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Nature: Monkeypox virus keeps getting better at spreading among humans

October 31, 2024 — 

However, the pattern did not show up in a report posted to a preprint server in August1. In that study, a team sequenced clade Ia virus samples collected between 2018 and 2024. That the researchers didn’t spot the pattern suggests that it might be a recent development. “We didn’t pick up on strong signs of evolution” in the more rural and endemic regions of the DRC, says Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, a virologist at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, who collaborates with Mbala and co-authored the August preprint as well as the Virological one. “But in Kinshasa, it seems that there is something unique going on.”

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