We used pathogen genomics to test orangutan specimens from a museum in Bonn, Germany, to identify the origin of the animals and the circumstances of their death. We found monkeypox virus genomes in the samples and determined that they represent cases from a 1965 outbreak at Rotterdam Zoo in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Keywords: Austria; Disease Outbreaks; Genomics; Germany; Monkeypox virus; Phylogeny; Pongo; Rotterdam; Zoonosis; mpox; orangutan; the Netherlands; viruses.