Stories by: Cecilia Akoth
What Do Monkeys Have To Do With Monkey Pox?
10 Jul, 2024 03:50 PM
MONKEYPOX
The name, instead, likely comes from monkeys' association with skin lesions identical to those in smallpox – so the scientists called it monkeypox. And pox, if you’re wondering, is a variant spelling of pocks, the plural of the old English pock, or ‘pustu
The name, instead, likely comes from monkeys' association with skin lesions identical to those in smallpox – so the scientists called it monkeypox. And pox, if you’re wondering, is a variant spelling of pocks, the plural of the old English pock, or ‘pustu
