While about 30 per cent of smallpox patients died, the fatality rate for mpox has been about 3 per cent to 6 per cent. The disease was discovered at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen in 1958, where it was spreading in monkeys kept for research....
If a lesion forms on the eye, it can cause blindness. The illness typically lasts two to four weeks, according to the WHO, and patients are infectious from the time symptoms start until the sores heal....
Mortality is higher among children and
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