outbreak of monkeypox at Rotterdam Zoo

When

21 Dec 1964

Kind

Epidemic

Coordinates

51.93° N, 4.45° E

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

In 1964 there was an outbreak of mpox, then known as monkeypox, at Rotterdam Zoo, where two Central/South American giant anteaters were first identified with the disease. Until then, mpox was thought to occur only in primates. Housed in one large enclosure, the monkeypox virus subsequently spread to several orangutans, chimpanzees, gorillas, guenons, squirrel monkeys, macaques, marmosets and gibbons.

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