January 08, 2016
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
The Institut Pasteur in Bangui confirms cases of monkeypox virus infection in Central African Republic
The Institut Pasteur in Bangui confirmed cases of monkeypox virus infection in Bangassou about 800 km from Bangui capital city of the Central African Republic.
A team from Doctors without Borders Belgium located in this area at the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has collected samples from two children of the same family who presented with rashes (maculopapular) after consuming thryonomys meat a rodent locally known as sibissi.