PODCAST| Monkeypox: How it spreads, when to test and why people 42 and up may be protected

Mia Malan Danny Booysen

27 Jun 2022

GettyImages-1241387053 — The smallpox vaccine provides 85% protection against infection with monkeypox, but South Africa stopped vaccinating people against smallpox in 1980. (Photo illustration by Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Mia Malan

Mia Malan is Bhekisisa's editor-in-chief and executive director. Malan has won more than 20 African journalism awards for her work and is a former fellow of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

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