Mystery ailments, asymptomatic individuals: Spotlight on monkeypox in chimps

2020-06-05 13:44
In January 2017, researchers noticed two ill chimpanzees in Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire. The baby and adolescent West African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) were coughing, breathing hard, and there was discharge from their nose and eyes. Each also had a single fluid-filled blister on its mouth. Livia Patrono, a postdoctoral associate at the […]