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North Korea says about 3.3 million people have come down with fever amid its COVID-19 outbreak but only 69 have died, a number that causes skepticism.

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 ...

Supportive care works and very important to note while monkeypox is a problem, it's a problem in central africa and in west africa, the fatality rate is very low and in fact, in the cases that we saw in the united states, we had an outbreak in 2003, there were 47 cases here. we did not have a single death. so this is not something i would put in the same category as covid-19. it concerning. we need to get in front of it but it is not a situation that we can compare to covid-19. >> it's so important to point that out because we're still all in this heightened alert status because of that. alway...

Be effective against it. antiviral medication we have used for another virus called cmv. in that fatality rate of symmetry one in 10% in general with monkeypox viruses. this one is believed to be around 1% or even less than 1%. >> meantime the government is authorizing what a third of a billion dollars basically for a vaccine production against monkeypox? quickset is right the government announces been through in a million dollars on a vaccine that would potentially address the monkeypox virus. this is premature. we have not had any clinical data we don't know if there's a true outbreak in the...

Here's dr sarahjarvis to explain. this is transmitted by large respiratory droplets. if you remember at the beginning of the pandemic we were saying face coverings will not make a lot of difference because you need to be face—to—face with someone for quite some time and those droplets are big they don't spread very far away. because these droplets need to be fairly large you have to be face—to—face or close contact with somebody for quite some time or it can be spread by contaminated clothing or linen for instance or it can be spread by cuddling each other and holding somebody who is i...