The human strain: can mpox be contained?
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The Economist
4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2024
⏱️ 28 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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| 1:32.3 | As if there isn't enough to worry about, consider the prospect of nuclear war in space. |
| 1:35.3 | The first casualties would be the satellites |
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| 2:22.0 | Mpox, or monkeypox as it used to be known, is a highly contagious disease endemic in remote areas of western central Africa. Though there have been outbreaks before, a new strain of Mpox is now |
| 2:29.1 | spreading, which is both more dangerous and more contagious than earlier ones. |
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