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Welcome to the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me, Tony Becket, each week, one question

for expert witnesses and an answer.

In July of this year, the World Health Organization announced its highest level of alert, a global

health emergency for a virus that's rapidly making its way across the globe.

We have an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly through new modes of transmission

about which we understand too little.

This time it wasn't COVID, it was monkey pox, a disease that causes painful lesions on

the body.

Saturday, I started feeling really sick, with flu symptoms, out of fever, I was sleeping

all day, sweats, a headache.

It was particularly painful in the genitals and other sensitive areas when I would use

the restroom that pretty much felt as if you were rubbing glass on your skin.

There have been cases of monkey pox in Africa for several decades, but now it had started

to spread rapidly across dozens of countries both within and outside the continent and

people contracting it were experiencing new and more worrying symptoms.

In a small number of cases, it was even leading to death.

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