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Monkeypox emerges as a new potential pandemic

By May 20, eleven countries — including the US, Spain and Italy — had now detected monkeypox, in the first global outbreak of its kind. More cases are expected in the coming days.  Map from Daily Mail.

On 13 May 2022, WHO was notified of two laboratory confirmed cases and one probable case of monkeypox, from the same household, in the United Kingdom. On 15 May, four additional laboratory confirmed cases have been reported amongst Sexual Health Services attendees presenting with a vesicular rash illness in men who have sex with men (MSM).

The West African clade of monkeypox was identified in the two confirmed cases using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT PCR) on vesicle swabs on 12 May and 13 May.

World Health Organization

Monkeypox has been around longer than this, but suddenly it’s a pandemic.  A case of monkeypox was reported in Texas on July 16, 2021, which was after the NTI tabletop exercise.

It appears that this potential pandemic was planned as well, and health regulators are using PCR tests to identify it.

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