A former official at the US Food and Drug Administration declared that the US had failed to contain the outbreak Monkey disease It is at the “peak” to see the spread of the virus.
As Scott Gottlieb told CBS on Sunday, “I think the window to contain and contain the virus may have closed, if it hasn’t closed, it’s certainly started to close.”
He continued: “It’s possible that we’re only finding a small fraction of actual cases because for too long we’ve had a very narrow definition of cases, and it’s focused on who’s being tested.”
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“Typically, we look at the LGBT community and STD clinics and find cases. But there are cases right now outside of this community, and we don’t track them because we don’t look for them.”
He also talked about the number of cases in the United States, saying, “I wouldn’t be surprised if there are thousands of cases now.”
The same mistakes are repeated
He explained, “We made the same mistakes we did with Covid-19, which is having a narrow case definition, not doing enough testing early, and not delivering the vaccine in an effective way,” he explained. Don’t explode, because it’s hard to spread, but it’s persistent.
Last month, New York City and Washington, D.C. began offering limited monkeypox vaccines and quickly hit deadlines.
New York City Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan said the city is “fighting two epidemics at once,” NBC 4 reported.
Will he declare an emergency?
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it had ordered an additional 2.5 million doses of monkeypox vaccine to respond to the outbreak.
In addition, the World Health Organization is expected to meet this week to decide whether to declare monkey flu a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).
What is monkey disease?
Measles is a rare disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans and vice versa. Symptoms include fever, muscle aches, swollen lymph nodes, chills, fatigue, and a chicken pox-like rash on the hands and face.
The disease is typically endemic in West and Central Africa, and infections have been recorded in Europe since May, and since then the number of countries that have tracked it on their soil has increased.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are currently more than 1,800 cases of monkeypox in the United States and more than 12,500 cases worldwide.
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