Smallpox of monkeys, the first sequence of the genome from Portugal

Portugal is first in sequencing the virus responsible for the monkeypox epidemic, which is growing rapidly in several countries, all of which are not endemic to the disease. And a novelty emerged that surprised the same scientists involved in sequencing the viral genome: the virus appears to be “more closely related” to the strains detected in 2018 and 2019 in the UK, Singapore and Israel than to monkeypox in the United Kingdom. last outbreak.