++ Smallpox monkeys, from Portugal first genome sequence ++

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 23 - The first monkeypox sequence has arrived: made known online, it was obtained in Portugal by a research group of the Bioinformatics Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Health Doutor RicardoJorge (INSA), in Lisbon .

    The virus that is worrying several countries around the world seems very similar to the one that caused cases in various countries including Great Britain, Singapore and Israel in 2018-19.

In 2018, there were three cases in the UK after a person returned from Nigeria infected two other members of her family.

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