(New York Times) – In a remote Congolese town, a medical mystery led to the discovery of alarming changes in the mpox virus and, eventually, to a global health emergency.

How could a boy who had never left Kamituga have mpox?

It was the start of a medical mystery that would reveal swift and startling changes in a virus once considered a familiar foe, lead to the declaration of a global public health emergency and draw scientists from around the world on a dayslong journey along a muddy, rutted track that is the only way to reach Kamituga. (Read More)