A team of researchers traced the wild animal source of the mpox virus to the fire-footed rope squirrel Funisciurus pyrropus ...

Even though the virus was first discovered in laboratory monkeys in 1958, the original source came from a squirrel.

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Then the scientists found the squirrel’s carcass less than two miles from the monkeys’ territory, and it was teeming with a virus identical to the one infecting the mangabeys.