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Monkeypox emerges in Africa in the wake of smallpox

Few human accomplishments match the eradication of smallpox virus in the late 1970s. It was, and still is, the only disease wiped from the face of the Earth. However, three decades later, a related virus, monkeypox, is on the rise in parts of central Africa precisely because of the success of smallpox eradication.

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