Karen landman: Monkey pox is just the latest in a host of new diseases we're going to be coming into contact with. She says climate change, travel and deforestation are all trends that don't seem to be going anywhere. "There's certainly a risk that will start to see a little bit more of this dynamic evolving in future"
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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