Kai KupferschmidtI’ve read a lot of stuff about #mpox already that is wrong or at least confused. And it’s not that surprising. The situation is pretty complicated and confusing. I tried to disentangle a few things for Science here (thread to come later):
lenahallesaale@kakape "In addition, spillovers from animals to humans may have become more frequent because large forest animals have almost been driven to extinction, spurring people to hunt and consume the small rodents likely to carry the mpox virus." This (extinction of predators causes human health problems) sounds like an important nature conservation topic. Do you know more about this?