A day late and a dollar short on monkeypox →

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Ahead of the global eruption of monkeypox cases, outbreaks of the disease were already increasing in West and Central Africa, where it has sporadically appeared for decades. For researchers in the region, it’s a familiar cycle, like the West African Ebola outbreak that began in 2013, when attention and resources to an existing pathogen only increase after the disease threatens the global north. Read more.