Three genera of African rodent, Graphiurus (African dormice), Cricetomys (giant pouched rat) and Funisciurus (African striped squirrel), have been named as likely reservoirs of the mpox virus.

Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It’s quite easily passed on from one person to another.

In recent research that I was involved in we found evidence of orthopoxvirus infections in a genus of mice (Praomys and Mus) and the black rat. Orthopoxvirus is a genus of viruses that cause smallpox, ...

First identified by archaeologists in 1978, the site was initially found to be home to at least 70 hominin footprints ...