Maybe The Readership Can Help Explain This Very Cool -- But Largely... Opaque Chart To Me. Maybe I Am Just... Thick.

Okay. Okay. I admit it. I am too lazy to spend the day reading this study, in Nature.

But I am a huge fan of cool. . . graphics (obviously!).

And of course, I am kidding -- no one needs to explain it to me -- I will make it my bedtime reading tonight, but it does offer some insight into the NY/Philly prevalence of certain strains of Mpox. See here:

. . .The outer ring was colored by geographical region. Sublineages associated with specific geographical regions were shown using colored asterisks. All the B.1 sublineages were placed as distinct clades and had a 98.9% agreement with the Nextclade lineage assignment.

Most sequences (93.6%) from sublineage B.1.12 were from NYC (red asterisk). Most sequences from sublineages B.1.11, B.1.13, B.1.2 and, B.1.4 were primarily from North America (excluding NYC) (orange asterisks); and sublineages B.1.1, B.1.7 and B.1.9 were primarily from Europe (blue asterisks). B.1.6 sublineage was predominantly from South America (purple asterisk). The source data files for Fig. 1 are available in this GitHub repository. . . .

Onward, smiling.

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