Liberia: Scientists At National Public Health Institute Discover New Monkeypox Virus Strain in Liberia As Mpox Cases Decline

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia -- Scientists at the National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) led by renowned biomedical scientist, Dougbeh Chris Nyan, have detected, identified, and characterized a new Monkeypox virus strain in Liberia, the Mpox Clade IIa, more than half a century after the first case of an uncharacterized Monkeypox virus was detected in Liberia in 1970, about 55 years ago. The findings have been independently validated in collaboration with Nigerian and US scientists, and published in the scientific journal,