Disease experts worry that the window to contain monkeypox in many countries where it's not already endemic is closing, but they said it's not too late.
A medical laboratory technician picks up a reactive agent to test suspected monkeypox samples Sunday at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital in Madrid.World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus cautioned Wednesday that the window to contain the global monkeypox outbreak may be narrowing.
If outbreaks aren't contained and the virus does gain a foothold in new regions, it could simmer indefinitely at low levels. It's also possible cases would rise to epidemic proportions in some places, meaning large numbers of people would get sick in a short time frame. "There’s still a window of opportunity to prevent the onward spread of monkeypox in those at highest risk right now," Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the WHO's technical lead on monkeypox, said at the briefing.Two smallpox vaccines — both approved by the Food and Drug Administration — may be key to the prevention effort. The U.S.
"Right now we’re more at risk for the virus maybe becoming endemic due to ongoing human-to-human transmission and our inability to stop the transmission cycle," Roess said. "It still does take a few days from the time someone is identified to the time that we can confirm their diagnosis," Roess said. Experts don’t yet know whether its scale is a clue that monkeypox has evolved to get better at human-to-human transmission or whether countries are simply uncovering the extent of an outbreak that went undetected for some time.: The virus is spreading from person to person in at least two countries, and there are community-level outbreaks in several parts of the world.
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