Dr. Paul Byers, state epidemiologist, answered some of the most common questions about monkeypox for Mississippi Today. Read more:
Monkeypox was discovered in 1958. Cases usually occur in areas of West and Central Africa where monkeypox is endemic. Cases have occurred outside of these countries before but have been associated with travel to or exposure to someone who's been in these endemic countries. In the current outbreak in the U.S. and worldwide, person-to-person transmission is occurring in countries that don’t normally report monkeypox.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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