As cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the US, a top health official is emphasizing the outbreak needs to be handled in a more rigorous manner.
This is something we definitely need to pay attention to. It’s spreading more widely than it is currently, but that doesn’t mean it will have the capability of spreading much more widely than it’s spreading right now. Anthony Fauci told CNN on Saturday.
The US Food and Drug Administration had a former commissioner. Scott Gottlieb warned that it might be too late to contain the virus.
We’re in the early stages of another pandemic and if we don’t get a handle on this soon, it could be much worse than this
In the United States, Monkeypox has been detected throughout most of the country, according to the CDC.
States with the most cases include New York, California, Florida, and Illinois.
The latest data shows the CDC has tracked at least 1,814 probable or confirmed cases in the US, as of Friday, and a total of 12,556 confirmed cases in 68 countries.
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, who’s the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the president’s chief medical advisor, the numbers are “very likely an undercount.
On Friday, the CDC said there have been eight cases of monkeypox, an extremely rare infectious disease that only occurs in monkeys, among individuals who were born female and no cases have been reported in children or adolescents.
Gottlieb believes that the monkeypox virus is spreading widely in the community and will likely continue to be a problem.
This virus has now been embedded in the community, and although it’s not going to explode because it’s harder for this virus to spread, it’s probably going to be persistent.
“You’re going to have to accept this fact of life as part of the culture, that’s going to be pretty big,” he said.
The CDC is working with five commercial labs to increase testing capacity, and the US Department of Health and Human Services said on Friday that testing capacity has gone up from 6,000 to 70,000 tests per week.
Monkeypox is a pox virus related to smallpox and cowpox. A new strain of a previously harmless virus is usually responsible for the severe cases that kill people around the world, said the CDC.
Monkeypox isn’t the only thing showing up on the arms and legs more frequently, but it does raise some concerns that the sexually transmitted disease might be mistaken for monkeypox.
When you have the virus, you can pass it to someone else if you are close to them. You can also spread it through contact with respiratory secretions.
Touching items that have been contaminated with monkeypox lesions or fluids can spread the disease.
On Saturday, Fauci said he expects that more than 700,000 doses of vaccine will be available in communities by the end of July
Because you want to protect the people at risk, not only the people who might have had an exposure that they know of, but also people, by the virtue of the fact that they’re in a risk situation, they need to get vaccinated, he said.,