UM TodayVirology – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Nature: Monkeypox virus keeps getting better at spreading among humans https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/nature-monkeypox-virus-keeps-getting-better-at-spreading-among-humans/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/nature-monkeypox-virus-keeps-getting-better-at-spreading-among-humans/#respond Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:04:51 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=206098 Monkeypox virus keeps getting better at spreading among humans]]> However, the pattern did not show up in a report posted to a preprint server in August1. In that study, a team sequenced clade Ia virus samples collected between 2018 and 2024. That the researchers didn’t spot the pattern suggests that it might be a recent development. “We didn’t pick up on strong signs of evolution” in the more rural and endemic regions of the DRC, says Dr. Jason Kindrachuk, a virologist at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, who collaborates with Mbala and co-authored the August preprint as well as the Virological one. “But in Kinshasa, it seems that there is something unique going on.”

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