Ugandan monkeys harbor evidence of infection with unknown poxvirus

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Red colobus monkeys living in a park in western Uganda harbored antibodies to an unknown orthopoxvirus a pathogen that is related to the viruses that cause smallpox monkeypox and cowpox. Credit: Photo by Tony Goldberg
Red colobus monkeys living in a park in western Uganda harbored antibodies to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen that is related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox. Credit: Photo by Tony Goldberg

Researchers report this month that red colobus monkeys in a park in western Uganda have been exposed to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox. Most of the monkeys screened harbor antibodies to a virus that is similar – but not identical – to known orthopoxviruses. The findings appear online in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases.


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