Cases in West and Central Africa have been on the rise for decades

• 1 JUN 2022
• 4:30 PM
• BYJON COHEN
• https://www.science.org/content/article/monkeypox-is-a-new-global-threat-african-scientists-know-what-the-world-is-up-against

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A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6597.Download PDF

As monkeypox stokes here-we-go-again fears in a pandemic-weary world, some researchers in Africa are having their own sense of déjà vu. Another neglected tropical disease of the poor gets attention only after it starts to infect people in wealthy countries. “It’s as if your neighbor’s house is burning and you just close your window and say it’s fine,” says Yap Boum, an epidemiologist in Cameroon who works with both the health ministry and Doctors Without…