A monkeypox outbreak continues to grow in countries where the virus isn't normally found, putting global health officials on high alert.
In that research, genetic sequences showed that the first monkeypox cases in 2022 appear to have descended from an outbreak that resulted in cases in Singapore, Israel, Nigeria and the United Kingdom from 2017 to 2019.
"If monkeypox were to become established in a wildlife reservoir outside Africa, the public health setback would be difficult to reverse," Rimoin, now a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health,The latest monkeypox outbreak is proving difficult to predict in part because we haven't been able to fully trace its origins.
animals in nonendemic countries from "an existential threat to a distinct possibility," Rimoin told CNN. Such a spillover could then allow the virus to remain in an environment, jumping between animals and humans over time. last week, saying there's no evidence that the virus established itself in US wildlife after authorities conducted "an aggressive campaign for exposed animals during the 2003 outbreak."Still, it wouldn't be the first virus to take up residence in a US animal population, said Dr. Amesh Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health., West Nile virus was unheard-of in the US.
"At the moment, we are not concerned of a global pandemic," said Rosamund Lewis, technical lead for monkeypox at the WHO Health Emergencies Programme.
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