College campuses, set to reopen across the country this month, are confronting a new public health crisis: 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝗽𝗼𝘅.
College campuses, set to reopen across the country this month, are confronting a new public health crisis: Monkeypox.
Schools need to make sure their campus medical staff is educated about monkeypox, he says, and make sure students know where the risks are. "Vaccines are in extremely limited supply. While that's the case, mass vaccination of a low-risk group is not an option," says Leana Wen, MD, an emergency doctor and public health policy professor at George Washington University.
In addition, the university is working with county health officials, the CDC, and on-campus groups to encourage"frank conversations about sex, relationships and health" among the school's 17,600 students. No treatments are specifically designed for monkeypox, which typically goes away on its own in 2 to 4 weeks. But antiviral drugs, such as tecovirimat , can be used in severe cases.
Adalja agrees that certain populations are at greater risk for monkeypox and that should factor into planning and response efforts. Schaffner, medical director of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, worries that monkeypox could spread widely on college campuses this fall, without broad public awareness campaigns that alert all students to the dangers — not just those at-risk people who've mostly been infected to date.
Schaffner agrees, but he says he believes monkeypox presents more challenges because of how it is transmitted and questions of stigmatization.
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