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Covering an Mpox Outbreak in Congo: Mile After Mile of Muck

Covering an Mpox Outbreak in Congo: Mile After Mile of Muck

We set out again at sunrise, and soon arrived at a mud pit in a hillside. There an industry had emerged in pushing and pulling vehicles up and down the hill. There were belching diesel fumes, and a great deal of yelling. I nicknamed the place Mordor, after Tolkien’s hellscape. Scrambling up the hill, I thought about how everything entering …

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