Sorry about the delay in this release folks! In this episode, we revisit the current unusual Monkeypox outbreak and dive into the DNA of this virus to try to understand why it is so much more global this time. Spoiler alert: the DNA currently doesn't have answers for us, but it seems to be mutating faster than normal!
References:
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html
https://worldhealthorg.shinyapps.io/mpx_global/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.28036
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.06.10.495526v1.full
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01907-y
