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In Congo, a Medical Mystery Offers Clues to the Mpox Epidemic

βœ‡NYT > Science
Stephanie Nolen and Moses Sawasawa
In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency.

Β© Moses Sawasawa for The New York Times

Yves Mujula, who works for Congo’s National Institute of Biomedical Research, and Serge Siklui, who works with the aid agency Alima, carry a cooler box of virus samples from a broken-down vehicle on the Kamituga road.
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