June 14, 2003

Humans blamed for US spread of monkeypox

The Telegraph (UK):

An outbreak of monkeypox, a highly infectious virus related to smallpox, has swept through four American states in the first recorded cases in the western hemisphere.

The US government is scrambling to contain the epidemic, which escalated last week when doctors revealed that they believed the virus had been spread by humans.


Posted by Timothy Fredel at June 14, 2003 06:49 PM | TrackBack
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