Monkey pox has been confirmed in Italy and sweden. The first case of the year was confirmed wednesday in massachusetts, a man who'd only recently travelled to canada. It doesn't cause nearly as bad a disease as smallpox did, and it doesn't spread as easily from person to person as small pox did. So it's not likely to lead to the kind of mass deaths that we saw with covin 19 so i don't think we would expect to see a whole lot of deaths due to monkey pox in places where i've good access to hospital care.
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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