The human strain: can mpox be contained?
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The Economist
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🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Mpox is spreading fast across Africa, yet public information campaigns are scant and vaccines in short supply. Is a new pandemic in the offing? Strategists are pondering a new potential threat from Russia: the possibility that it could detonate a nuclear weapon in space (09:42). And an Economist correspondent answers another of your questions about Artificial Intelligence (18:16).
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| 0:00.0 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:06.1 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:16.0 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:26.0 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. The Economist. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to Rosie Blore. |
| 0:45.0 | Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:53.0 | As if there isn't enough to worry about, consider the prospect of nuclear war in space. The first casualties would be the satellites that keep so much |
| 1:06.2 | earthly business going. We examine the risks and how some firms are aiming to |
| 1:11.0 | mitigate them. |
| 1:13.6 | And every week this summer we're answering your questions about artificial intelligence. |
| 1:18.4 | I definitely didn't know the answer to this one, but don't worry I didn't ask Chappie |
| 1:22.2 | P. |
| 1:23.0 | I found a brilliant human colleague instead. |
| 1:27.0 | But first. POCs, or monkeypox as it used to be known, is a highly contagious disease endemic in remote areas of Western Central Africa. |
| 1:52.0 | Though there have been outbreaks before, in Central Africa. |
| 1:56.0 | Though there have been outbreaks before, a new strain of empox is now spreading, which is both more dangerous and more |
| 1:59.0 | contagious than earlier ones. |
| 2:01.0 | Since January, tens of thousands of cases have been reported, and nearly 3,000 people have died from the disease, |
| 2:08.4 | according to Africa Centers for Disease Control. The World Health Organization has declared |
| 2:15.0 | Empocks a public health emergency of international concern. |
| 2:19.0 | It's clear that a coordinated international response is essential to stop this outbreaks and save lives. |
| 2:27.0 | Though last night it also said that we don't have a new pandemic on our hands. |
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