The world saves each year one thousand million dollars on vaccinos. Since 19 80, when smallpox was eradicated, the amount travel that people are able to do has changed quite a bit. Climate change as accelerated. Deforestation has accelerated conflict. And so this may be accelerated a monkey pox's arrival into this niche that small pox previously occupied.
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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