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Thank you for the update and links. Based on early media reports, I was under the impression that the current Monkeypox was just about the same as those from Israel, United Kingdom and Singapore from 2018/2019. The "differences" seem to be quite significant.

https://virological.org/t/multi-country-outbreak-of-monkeypox-virus-genetic-divergence-and-first-signs-of-microevolution/806

https://virological.org/t/discussion-of-on-going-mpxv-genome-sequencing/802/2

FTA: "A while back we estimated the rate of evolution of variola virus (VARV; the smallpox virus) to be about 1x10-5 substitutions per site per year (Firth et al, 2010) which would translate into about 1-2 nucleotide changes per year. This is at the high-end of estimates (see the paper for others). However Monkeypox may not have exactly the same rate of evolution."

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Thanks so much for the update. 👍🏼🙏🌷

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Wouldn't it be nice to know exactly what kind of genetic weaponization was done to the smallpox virus by Soviet Biowarfare experts?

You know, the exact same smallpox they loaded into refrigerated ICBM (but thankfully, not SLBM) warheads.

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