Is monkeypox becoming Covid-19-like pandemic? Top US health expert explains
Hindustan TimesEven as the United States is preparing to give monkeypox vaccines to close contacts of people infected and to deploy treatments, a top US health expert said it is unlikely that monkeypox would cause a Covid-19-like pandemic in the world. Vice-president and chief quality officer at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health Dr Faheem Younus said while monkeypox cases are concerning but the risk of this becoming a Covid-like pandemic is zero per cent. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the division of high consequence pathogens and pathology at CDC headquarters, said monkeypox has symptoms similar to smallpox but is far less severe, with most people recovering within weeks. The WHO) said there have been 131 confirmed monkeypox cases and 106 further suspected cases since the first was reported on May 7 outside the countries where it usually spreads.