KBC: In which city was the first ever case of monkeypox detected in monkeys in a laboratory?

KBC question for 75 lakhs: In which city was the first ever case of monkeypox detected in monkeys in a laboratory?

Options:

a) Johannesburg

b) Kuala Lumpur

c) Tokyo

d) Copenhagen

Answer: d) Copenhagen

First identified in a colony of monkeys in Copenhagen in 1958. An infectious poxvirus that causes fever, chills and rashes, the disease is endemic, or consistently regionally present, in ten African countries.