Yeah, this isn't the red flag you think it is. If they were planning something, they wouldn't publish it and would work behind the scenes like the US did with COVID.

Improving the detection of a virus through an already existing detection system in a virology lab isn't exactly farfetched, especially for a virus that was already reported to be breaking out before COVID-19.

Other studies regarding PCR detection of monkeypox:

Fort Detrick, USA: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15208646/

US CDC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16731033/

US CDC + Congo: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27994107/

US CDC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20643162/

Russia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20594906/

US CDC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16002637/

Russia: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27477914/

Fort Detrick, US: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29100534/

Japan: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18362406/

Couldn't find previous studies by WIV. If anything, they're late to the game.

The monkeypox outbreak isn't recent, the COVID-19 pandemic just interrupted MSM reports on it.

1)

(2021) News media narratives of Covid-19 across 20 countries: Early global convergence and later regional divergence

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34469446/

Pre-pandemic narratives (Oct'19-Dec'19) were divergent across regions with Africa focused on monkeypox, Asia on dengue fever, and North America on Lyme disease and AIDS.

2)

(2019) Misinformation making a disease outbreak worse: outcomes compared for influenza, monkeypox, and norovirus.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34285423/

Their goal was to study misinformation on "circulating contagious disease" in 2019 and one of them was monkeypox. Then they suggested strategies to counter "misinformation". Look at who suggested they use monkeypox in their paper in the acknowledgement section. A government associated academic, James Rubin:

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/james-rubin

assistant director for the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emergency Preparedness and Response which is a formal partnership between King’s College London and the UK Health Security Agency. James is a member of several committees which provide advice to Government agencies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, James was a regular participant in the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.

3) Monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria (2017-2019)

Use of Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System for Human Monkeypox Outbreak, Nigeria, 2017-2019

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31961314/

Monkeypox Virus in Nigeria: Infection Biology, Epidemiology, and Evolution

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33167496/

The reemergence of MPXV in 2017 (at Bayelsa state) after 39 years of no reported case in Nigeria, and the export of travelers' monkeypox (MPX) from Nigeria to other parts of the world, in 2018 and 2019

4)

A Case Report of Monkeypox in a 4-Year-Old Boy from the DR Congo: Challenges of Diagnosis and Management (2020)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32328334/

However, an increase in cases of MP has been observed over the past decades with frequent outbreaks as well as export of the disease out of the African continent.

5)

Confidence in managing human monkeypox cases in Asia: A cross-sectional survey among general practitioners in Indonesia (2020)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32194068/

6)

Identification and Whole-Genome Sequencing of a Monkeypox Virus Strain Isolated in Israel (2020)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32139560/

The strain was isolated in 2018 from a patient travelling back from West Africa.

Already being transmitted in 2018.

7)

Family cluster of three cases of monkeypox imported from Nigeria to the United Kingdom, May 2021

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34387184/

8) 2017 outbreak in Congo

Do Monkeypox Exposures Vary by Ethnicity? Comparison of Aka and Bantu Suspected Monkeypox Cases

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31769405/

9) Outbreak in the UK in 2018

Human-to-Human Transmission of Monkeypox Virus, United Kingdom, October 2018

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32023204/

The National Pulse is disinformation from right-wing pedophiles. Please don't quote pedos again.