“While some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right now, infectious diseases do not care about state or international borders. They’re not contained within social networks,” CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
when a “pox-like” outbreak appeared on monkeys being kept for research, which is how the disease “monkeypox” got its name.
But it was not until 1970 when the first human case of monkeypox surfaced in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, monkeypox has surfaced in humans who have lived in or traveled to central and western African countries. But the most recent cases of monkeypox have not been spread through travel to Africa. Most cases have come about without any direct links to Africa
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