No need for monkey pox panic | Citypress - News24


5/28/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 11 months ago
by Yoliswa Sobuwa

The institute says there are currently more than 80 poxviruses known to science that have been isolated in different species of birds, insects, reptiles, marsupials and mammals.

According to the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), monkeypox is caused by a virus that is a member of the genus Orthopoxvirus in the Poxviridaefamily. Ndung’u says the symptoms of… [+250 chars]

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