Science | "These small African antelopes may help Mpox spread"
Science interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Epidemiology, about research into game and Mpox infections.
Science interviewed Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the UCLA Fielding School's Department of Epidemiology and the Gordon-Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Disease and Public Health, about research into game animals and the spread of Mpox infections in Central Africa and West Africa.
"Walk around any bushmeat market in Central or West Africa, and among the wide variety of wildlife on offer you’re likely to find duikers, small antelopes that live in wooded areas across large parts of the continent ... now, researchers have discovered duikers may play a role in the spread of Mpox, a devastating disease that frequently spills over from animals to humans and causes tens of thousands of cases - including hundreds of deaths - each year.
The finding 'suggests duikers may be one piece of a more complex mpox ecology than we have fully appreciated,' says Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist and Mpox researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles who was not involved in the work."
