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.

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 ...