Year in Review Health & Medicine

Viruses other than the coronavirus made headlines in 2022

Mpox, Ebola and bird flu were among the outbreaks that hit this year

illustration of mpox virions

Mpox (illustrated) caught public health officials off guard as it spread around the world in 2022.

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By Erin Garcia de Jesús

This year delivered many sobering reminders that the coronavirus isn’t the only viral threat out there.

Mpox went global

The mpox virus, a relative of the virus that causes smallpox, had never before spread widely among people outside of Central and West Africa.