Football fever has taken over the world, thanks to the 2022 FIFA World Cup that’s currently being held in Qatar. Despite being organised under the shadow of two public health emergencies — the COVID-19 pandemic and the monkeypox disease (recently renamed as ‘Mpox’) — millions of fans from around the world are expected to throng this global footballing event. Amid all this frenzy, the possibility of a deadlier viral outbreak at the FIFA World Cup has been flagged by WHO-backed health experts! The findings of a study, published in the journal New Microbes and New Infections, have warned that about...