now is epidemiology professor at the mailman school of public health in columbia university, dr stephen morseat stephen. why are we seeing this outbreak? ., , , outbreak? not entirely sure. wh are outbreak? not entirely sure. why are there _ outbreak? not entirely sure. why are there so _ outbreak? not entirely sure. why are there so many - outbreak? not entirely sure. | why are there so many cases right now? we are seeing however is a very complex situation with a number of different outbreaks, all occurring at the same time. starting in may of 2022, there was a worldwide outbreak which is still going on, in which the who declared a public health emergency. and that was a monkeypox essentially from west africa originally, brought to the uk and then spread throughout the world and still going on from the nigerian outbreak. there is another clade or variety, if you will, branch of the mpox virus in central africa which has been classically known, and it's more severe. but usually, we don't see such a large number of cases. fik. so we're seeing of cases. ok. so we're seeing several academics ——