Health experts agree: the outbreak could soon qualify as a pandemic, if it doesn’t already. And the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. More infections, more deaths, more chances for the pox to mutate.
. It just takes advantage of the skin-to-skin contact that accompanies sex. The virus can also travel short distances on spittle, although probably not far enough to qualify as “airborne.”
Doctors may not have noticed or reported these earlier cases, at first, owing to the similarity between pox symptoms and the symptoms of some common sexually transmitted diseases such as herpes. In other words, the current outbreak began, and expanded, without anyone noticing at first. With its likeliest infection vectors cut off by early intervention, the virus withers and disappears—it can mutate into some new variant that might, say, be more contagious or even evade vaccines.because the WHO, CDC and other health organizations didn’t even know a pox outbreak was happening. The current, rapid spread is the consequence of that initial failure.
This is a mistake, Lawler said. “We certainly cannot make ‘pandemic’ declarations about every disease outbreak that crosses multiple international borders without becoming the boy who cries wolf,” he conceded. It’s also possible we’re seeing a happy side-effect of a pox outbreak mostly affecting richer communities. “Monkeypox is now being diagnosed in urban populations where more people have access to health-care facilities,” Blossom Damania, a virologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, told The Daily Beast.
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