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AI finds new target for monkeypox — Level A1 — pink and white flower petals

AI finds new target for monkeypoxCEFR A1

28 Dec 2025

Adapted from UT Austin, Futurity CC BY 4.0

Photo by CDC, Unsplash

Level A1 – Beginner
2 min
83 words
  • Scientists used artificial intelligence to help find answers.
  • They wanted to fight the monkeypox virus disease.
  • Monkeypox can be very bad for children and pregnant women.
  • In 2022 many people got sick around the world.
  • Researchers studied blood from sick and vaccinated people.
  • A team used AI to find which parts of the virus matter.
  • They tested a virus protein in mice in a lab.
  • The mice made immune proteins that stopped the virus.
  • The discovery may help make cheaper vaccines and medicines.

Difficult words

  • artificial intelligencecomputer systems that learn from data
  • virustiny germ that can make people sick
  • pregnanthaving a baby in the body
  • researcherperson who studies and tests things
    Researchers
  • proteinnatural part of cells and viruses
    proteins
  • immunerelated to the body's defence against disease

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Discussion questions

  • Have you ever had a vaccine?
  • Do you think vaccines help children?
  • Would you like medicines to be cheaper?

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