Mpox is a disease caused by the highly infectious monkeypox virus. It's quite easily passed on from one person to another.

But now it looks as if the primitive species Homo naledi survived in southern Africa, H. heidelbergensis was in south-central Africa, and early forms of our species existed in regions like Morocco ...

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It’s not yet certain which animals are the natural carriers. But, based on the available evidence, it is thought to be rodents and small mammals mostly found in west and central Africa.