Health authorities issue warning on monkeypox outbreak

[rangerrebew]

Health authorities issue warning on monkeypox outbreak
Pandemic fears arise as smallpox relative spreads. Andrew Masterson reports.

Labelling it a “concern for global health security”, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have sounded the alarm about a surge in cases of a sometimes-fatal close relative of smallpox called monkeypox.

In its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC notes a “recent apparent increase in human monkeypox cases across a wide geographic area”, and calls for urgent public health action and international collaboration to head off the threat of a pandemic.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/health-authorities-issue-warning-on-monkeypox-outbreak

[Applewood]

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Man, I would hate to be the one who has to work on that report.  Talk about depressing!

Anyway, it looks like this pox isn't coming to my hometown, so I'm not going to worry about it.