Some U.S. health officials are saying while the disease’s spread is slowing, the virus is so widespread that it will likely be a long term health threat.
NEW YORK — Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon.
“It’s in many geographic locations within the country” as well as in other countries, Lipsitch told The Associated Press. “There’s no clear path in our mind to complete elimination domestically.” Lipsitch attributed the good news to increasing vaccinations, cautious behavior by people at risk and infection-derived immunity in the highest risk populations.
Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, where people have been infected through bites from rodents or small animals, but it wasn’t considered a disease that spreads easily among people until May, when infections emerged in Europe and the U.S.
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