U.S. Has World's Biggest Monkeypox Outbreak
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The U.S. story of monkeypox feels to experts frustratingly like
a replay of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020,
Trend reports
citing Xinhua .
Monkeypox was supposed to be different, because it is much
harder to transmit, treatments and vaccines were already available,
much was known about a virus first described in 1958, and so many
lessons were supposedly learned from COVID-19, according to the
report.
'Yet the United States now has the world's biggest outbreak of
monkeypox,' with nearly 9,000 Americans registered as infected as
of Monday.
'And that's just the known cases. No one knows the full extent
of America's outbreak,' it said, quoting Lawrence Gostin, a
university professor and global health law expert at Georgetown
University, as saying that 'it's deja vu all over again. We're
really flying in the dark.'
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