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Esther Mwema plays with her two children, Dina Asifiwe, left, and Madina Tumusifu, outside their tent at a camp for displaced people in Munigi. Mwema says Madina, 4, was once treated for mpox, but now she closely guards her children to ensure their health.
The first human case of mpox was detected in 1970, in what is now DRC. It is considered less transmissible than its cousin smallpox, which spreads easily through the air, but in 2023, the Lancet medical journal published evidence that new variants of mpox are more contagious than once thought.
The first human case of mpox was detected in 1970, in what is now DRC. It is considered less transmissible than its cousin smallpox, which spreads easily through the air, but in 2023, the Lancet medical journal published evidence that new variants of mpox are more contagious than once thought.
