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Blistering pace: monkeypox spreads

The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
Episode • Aug 1, 2022 • 24m

As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, and the parallels with the early days of HIV. Nuclear waste has been stockpiled in supposedly temporary pools for decades; our correspondent visits the first place it is being permanently entombed. And where education is failing even amid encouraging enrolment numbers.

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