Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gromo de varíola símica de 2022" in Galician language version.
The panel warned that hedgehogs, rats, mice, squirrels, rabbits and hares could all harbour the virus if monkeypox was to spill into Britain's wildlife populations.
Do environmental conditions in the UK support the natural reservoirs or vectors of disease? Outcome: yes. Quality of evidence: satisfactory. Various animal species have been identified as susceptible to MPXV. Rodents are considered natural reservoirs of infection, including rope squirrels, tree squirrels, Gambian pouched rats, dormice, non-human primates (21) and other species (22).[...]
There are two strains of monkeypox; a Central African strain with a fatality rate of 10.6%, and a West African strain with a much lower mortality rate of between 1% and 3.6%
