BBCNEWS Outside Source June 4, 2024 18:35:00
Mutating into more lethal or transmissable forms. many are now asking whether this could happen with monkeypox. dr rosamund lewis is the head of the smallpox secretariat at the world health organisation. here's her answer to that. we can say that this is a dna virus. it's one of the largest, if not the largest, amongst the largest viruses known. the mutation rate is much lower than for rna viruses, and so it's a very stable virus. so, we don't yet have evidence that there is mutation in the virus itself. so, although monkeypox is a stable virus that doesn't tend to mutate, there are two forms ...
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