There is no known a symptomatic transmission with monkey pox. This means that in the period before a person starts to have those flue like symptoms, we don't think they're transmitting. Once you know who has who has been infected, youn who those contacts are, you first get them to stay home and then in some places, they're starting to vaccinate those people. They're vaccinating these folks with a smallpox vaccineand the smallpox vaccine many of us have either not really had to think about or even really know about.
Good news: Epidemiologists don’t think monkeypox will be as bad as Covid-19. Bad news: We stopped vaccinating people against this type of disease decades ago. Vox reporter (and resident epidemiologist) Keren Landman explains.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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