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Mpox Can Infect and Replicate in the Brain, NIH Researchers Say in Fatal HIV Case

A man with advanced HIV died with drug-resistant mpox replicating in his brain, US scientists found, in a case that shows how the virus can persist and evolve just as global health programs to check such infections are being scaled back.


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