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There was an undetected monkeypox outbreak already underway in
the United States before health officials in Europe and the U.S.
sounded the alarm about the dangerous viral disease back in May.
That�s a problem. For every day that a virus spreads unmonitored
and unchecked, there�s greater risk of it finding a permanent
home in a country it was only visiting. In the case of the pox �
in our pets.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention announced that there are two strains of the virus
circulating in the country, which indicates it�s probably been
here much longer than originally thought. It�s not clear when
that other outbreak began, but it could have potentially been
months ago.

Monkeypox, which causes a rash and fever and is fatal in a very
small percentage of cases, isn�t nearly as transmissible as
Covid-19. But unlike the novel coronavirus, it spreads easily to
and from certain animal populations � rodents in particular.

If the pox currently circulating in the U.S. spreads to rats,
hamsters, or gerbils, and becomes endemic in those species,
there might be no easy way to contain it. �I do share the other
scientists� concern of containment and the virus becoming
endemic in our U.S. rodent population,� sys Stephanie James, the
head of a viral testing lab at Regis University in Colorado.

There is some good news. For starters, no one has died yet as a
result of either recent pox outbreak. And authorities are better
equipped than ever to contain the outbreaks, thanks to large
stockpiles of smallpox vaccine (which works against monkeypox,
too) and their years of experience with contact-tracing thanks
to Covid-19.

More good news: despite some mixed messages from some health
experts, the pox is not airborne in its current form. The CDC
didn�t respond to a request for comment, but the European Center
for Disease Prevention and Control �Europe�s version of the CDC
� stressed �there is no evidence of long-range airborne
transmission.�

The confusion stems from the scientific definition of
�airborne.� Covid matches the definition. Monkeypox does not.
The pox can ride a very short distance on spittle, but it
doesn�t waft and linger in fine �aerosol� mists from breathing
and talking the way airborne Covid does.

The novel coronavirus can travel across a room on aerosols or
even hover in the air for hours at a time. The monkeypox in our
spit, by contrast, quickly falls to the floor just a couple feet
from our mouths. �Respiratory droplets may be able to spread the
virus, but it is not what is fueling transmission,� says Amesh
Adalja, a public-health expert at the Johns Hopkins Center for
Health Security. Instead, the pox spreads through very close
contact.

The bad news is we�re playing catch-up. And as that initially
undetected earlier outbreak indicates, we�re not even sure how
far behind we are. It�s not enough to contain and treat the pox
in people. We also need to prevent it spreading to rats and
hamsters and other animals.

Monkeypox, which first made the leap from monkeys or rodents to
people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970, regularly
flares up in Africa. But it rarely infects more than a couple
thousand people a year � and killed just 33 people during its
most prolonged outbreak in the DRC between 1981 and 1986.

When monkeypox spreads in places it�s not already endemic
outside Africa, health officials perk up. In 2003, 47 people in
the U.S. got sick with the pox after exposure to a shipment of
pet rodents from Ghana to Texas. A rapid response by state and
federal health officials � and a few doses of smallpox vaccine �
prevented anyone dying and temporarily eliminated the virus in
the U.S.

The larger of the current outbreaks began in early May,
apparently triggered by a U.K. traveler�s exposure to an
infected person or animal in Nigeria. Hitching a ride to Europe,
the virus spread quickly through close physical contact. David
Heymann, who formerly headed the World Health Organization�s
emergencies department, said that men attending raves in Spain
and Belgium �amplified� the outbreak � apparently through
kissing and rubbing skin.

After that, the virus accompanied travelers on planes heading
for countries far and wide. By June 2, the WHO had tallied 780
pox cases in 27 countries. The case count since has swelled to
around 1,400. Health officials diagnosed the first U.S case on
May 27.

As of Friday, 49 Americans in 16 states plus Washington, D.C.
had the pox. The CDC suspects some of those cases are the result
of an earlier outbreak that officials didn�t even notice until
the later outbreak caused them to go back and take a closer look
at some patients� symptoms.

Pox rashes look a lot like symptoms of other diseases, including
sexually-transmitted infections, or STIs. That earlier pox
outbreak apparently slipped past medical professionals because
they didn�t necessarily know what they were looking at. �These
monkeypox cases outside of the endemic area have likely been
smoldering along for some time, misdiagnosed as traditional
STIs,� says Adalja, the public health expert.

That delay in confirming pox cases is worrying experts. Every
day that passes in the current outbreaks increases the chance of
transmission to pets and pests. If the pox becomes endemic in
animal populations, we might never get rid of it. And countries
such as the U.S. that once experienced just a few small pox
outbreaks every 20 years or so could suffer bigger and more
frequent outbreaks, just like countries in Africa already do.

That�s the worst-case scenario, but authorities can�t contain an
outbreak they don�t even know is happening. It�s a troubling
sign that, in the third year of a devastating pandemic, doctors,
health officials and epidemiologists overlooked that earlier
pox outbreak, giving the virus a head start in the race toward
endemicity in animals. �I think we are dramatically under-
testing, under-ascertaining cases and underestimating risk,�
says James Lawler, an infectious disease expert at the
University of Nebraska Medical Center. �We apparently didn�t
learn very much from Covid.�

Lock the homnosexuals up until it stops spreading.

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