
This virus - formerly known as monkey pox - can be passed on through close contact and causes flu-like symptoms and lesions on the body and can be deadly. It's now been detected in at least 13 African countries, but one country has been hit particularly hard - the Democratic republic of Congo.
The Deutsche Welle News (DW News) team was asking for more information about the virus and why it is spreading so quickly from the virologist Julian Tang of University of Leicester. If the virus will be triggering a new pandemy like covid-19 did we will know a lot of things about it and we will be getting another vaccines because of it. This history seems to be repeating.