How the covid-19 pandemic helped tackle Ebola and monkeypox in 2022
The covid-19 pandemic has improved communication between researchers and officials, and may have even prompted Uganda’s first lockdown against Ebola
Health
27 December 2022
A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against monkeypox in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in August 2022
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During 2022, the third year of the covid-19 pandemic, the virus changed how we responded to other infectious outbreaks.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus continues to cause hospitalisations, deaths and increased pressure on medical services, albeit generally to a much lesser extent than before vaccines against it were rolled out. Nevertheless, covid-19 wasn’t the only infectious outbreak that the world recently contended with.
Monkeypox, now called mpox, was identified in non-endemic countries in May …
