The infectious disease specialist pointed to the adaptation of monkey pox to the human body

In recent years, the monkey pox virus has begun to mutate and adapt more actively to the human body. This was announced on April 18 by Murad Shakhmardanov, MD, Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the Institute of Clinical Medicine of the Pirogov University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.

"For a long time, monkey pox was considered a typical zoonosis, an infection that "comes" to humans from animals and quickly fades away. However, research over the past two years has reversed this view. Back in 2022, at the height of the global outbreak, scientists recorded a paradox: a virus that was thought to mutate slowly (because it contains DNA) suddenly began to accumulate changes at an unprecedented rate," he told TASS.

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