Bird flu is the disease we should all worry about, not monkeypox John Vidal
Jun 03, 2022
3 minutes
n recent weeks there have been around 100 cases and at least 18 human deaths from a rare tick-borne disease in Iraq; a fourth case of the Ebola virus and more than 100 cases of bubonic plague have been found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and just two years after Africa was declared free of wild polio, new cases have turned up in Malawi and Mozambique. A dangerous strain of typhus is circulating in Nepal, India and China.
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