Disease Control Experts Work on Eradicating Deadly ‘Monkeypox’ in Africa to Prevent Outbreak

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are still working on a cure for Ebola, yet another deadly virus is becoming a threat to the world.

The Monkeypox virus was first identified in 1970 as the cause of a smallpox-like illness in humans in remote African locations first discovered in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of monkeys kept for research, hence the name “monkeypox.”

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