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.