WHO rehearses deadly ‘mammothpox’ outbreak – Telegraph

An exercise by the UN agency earlier this month simulated an outbreak of a “fictional” virus spreading across the world

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recently rehearsed a scenario in which an ancient virus lying dormant in the remains of a woolly mammoth caused a deadly global outbreak of “mammothpox,” The Telegraph has reported, citing documents about the exercise it had obtained. 

The press release by the global health...