Monkeypox Pandemic exercise Mar 2021

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In March 2021 at the Munich Security Conference, a simulation was run on reducing "high-consequence biological threat". The exercise sought to examine gaps in national and international biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.

The exercise scenario portrayed a "global pandemic" involving an unusual strain of monkeypox virus that emerged in the fictional nation of Brinia and spread globally over 18 months.



January 10, 2023 with 83 countries affected with 70 million cases and 1.3 million deaths.


May 10, 2023, the simulation showed 480 million cases and 27 million deaths.

December 1, 2023, the scenario moved to 3.2 billion cases and 271 million deaths.



Less than 50%