Red Colobus Monkey (IMAGE)

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau

Red Colobus Monkey

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Red colobus monkeys living in a park in western Uganda harbored antibodies to an unknown orthopoxvirus, a pathogen that is related to the viruses that cause smallpox, monkeypox and cowpox.

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Photo by Tony Goldberg

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