Monkeypox virus spreading in DR Congo

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“Symptoms of monkeypox include severe eruptions on the skin.” PHOTO/USG/afrol News

The deadly smallpox virus was eradicated worldwide in 1979, and the year after, vaccination stopped. But the vaccine had also protected against the dangerous “monkeypox” virus, and now a new generation in DR Congo is increasingly exposed to the disease.

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