Thanks to public health — and a little luck — this disease didn’t become a pandemic. Read more, via FiveThirtyEight:
This news shows that public health officials — and the public itself — got some important stuff right in combating this serious illness. But monkeypox is also a reminder that humans will encounter many potentially dangerous new diseases. COVID wasn’t the first, or the last. What stops most diseases from becoming pandemics is as much about luck as it is about human intervention.
In August, scientists surveyed more than 800 men who have sex with men, trying to find out how monkeypox — and the education campaigns surrounding it — had affected their lives. According to, about half of the men made some important changes to their behavior.
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