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With cases reported in a number of countries, human monkeypox infection is generating global interest and concern as an emerging infectious disease threat even in the midst of a slowly relenting COVID-19 pandemic.

Infectious disease was first recorded in 1970 but a surge in cases has led to the largest outbreak in Europe to date

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

PROFESSOR Rowland Kao is the chair of veterinary epidemiology and data science at Edinburgh University. The biologist has done extensive research…

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

In light of the approaching winter months combined with the recent lifting of the national disaster act, South Africans have anxiously been watching an increase in COVID infections. The Conversation Africa spoke to infectious disease specialist Veronica Ueckermann about the current trajectory of the pandemic in the country.

This could become the largest outbreak of monkeypox in countries outside of Africa — but there's no need to panic, an infectious disease expert says.

Infectious disease was first recorded in 1970 but a surge in cases has led to the largest outbreak in Europe to date