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The human strain: can mpox be contained?

The human strain: can mpox be contained?

Update: 2024-08-21
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Mpox is spreading fast across Africa, yet public information campaigns are scant and vaccines in short supply. Is a new pandemic in the offing? Strategists are pondering a new potential threat from Russia: the possibility that it could detonate a nuclear weapon in space (09:42 ). And an Economist correspondent answers another of your questions about Artificial Intelligence (18:16 ). 


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The human strain: can mpox be contained?

The human strain: can mpox be contained?