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dangerous virus that arrived from overseas. Thousands of cases worldwide, with thousands more to follow. A rush to vaccinate vulnerable groups. Education and advice campaigns ramped up in multiple languages. A global health emergency declared by the WHO. If all this sounds familiar, it should. For the second time in just a few years, we’re facing a global health


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emergency that, if it hasn’t yet taken on the tenor of Covid, certainly sparks the same worried feelings. Yet beyond the headlines, what is monkeypox really, and does it pose similar risks as the pandemic that just passed? In part, these questions are difficult to answer, if only because monkeypox has just recently transcended its African homeland and spread


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It’s always been a cliché that bad things happen in pairs – and the arrival of monkeypox just as the Covid pandemic began to recede has done little to disprove the theory. But beyond the superfi cial similarities between the two illnesses, and some of the more dramatic media attention it’s enjoyed, how much do monkeypox and Covid really have in common? Andrea Valentino talks to Professor Wafaa El-Sadr of Columbia University, and Professor David Heymann of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, to learn more.


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