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Less Severe Monkeypox Virus Confirmed in Europe

In Travel Vaccine News by Travel Vaccine

Over the past three weeks, the global monkeypox outbreak has raised many questions. Finally, an essential clinical opinion has just been answered.
A non-peer-reviewed study from Lisbon, Portugal, published on May 19, 2022, is the first draft genome sequence of the monkeypox virus associated with the ongoing outbreak. This sequence was obtained from a male patient collected on May 4th from skin lesions. 
A first rapid phylogenetic analysis of the draft genome indicates that the 2022 version belongs to the West African clade.