Last month, South Africans developed a sudden fascination with monkeypox, with interest in monkeypox – not detected in South Africa – outweighing that shown in the long-running Covid-19 pandemic – which continued to cause deaths in SA.
Business Insider SAA US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, showing the symptoms of monkeypox.
For much of the last week of May, Google search data shows, South Africans were looking up monkeypox more often than they were asking for information on Covid-19, or the coronavirus. But the initial flurry of interest seemed to be dying down just as quickly as it had spiked.
Examples that spread in South Africa included claims that monkeypox is a plot by pharmaceutical companies to enhance profits, and that monkeypox would be used as a pretext for further lockdowns.
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