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A total of 21 monkeypox cases have been reported at Mayo Hospital, Lahore, over the past six months, according to hospital officials.Authorities said none of the patients diagnosed with monkeypox had ...

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Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

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Without explanation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Trump administration has reverted from using the disease name “mpox” to the obsolete “monkeypox,” which the world ...

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PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Health and the University of Washington have detected the clade I mpox virus, also known as monkeypox, in Pierce County wastewater. The ...