Monkeypox: Should we be worried?
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🗓️ 24 May 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Today on Post Reports, what to know about monkeypox and how prepared the United States is for future pandemics. Plus, in New Orleans, the return of a beloved Mardi Gras tradition.
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What is monkeypox, and how concerned should we be about the virus? Cameron Wolfe, an infectious-disease expert at Duke University, explains what we know about the rare virus, now confirmed in the United States and Europe.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert late last week, urging doctors and health departments to be vigilant. Monkeypox, which can be passed to animals and humans, is usually found in Central and West Africa. But many of the recent cases cropping up in the United Kingdom, France and elsewhere suggest the virus may be spreading through the community.
Plus, in New Orleans, the Mardi Gras Indians are back in a big way.
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| 0:00.0 | Monkey pox as a name. |
| 0:04.8 | I mean, perhaps it's no stranger than like chicken pox, |
| 0:08.7 | but it is, you know, when I saw it on TV news |
| 0:11.2 | that monkey pox was spreading. |
| 0:12.6 | I was like, seriously, we have monkey pox now? |
| 0:15.5 | It's an unfortunate name in Summer Gods. |
| 0:21.6 | That's Dr. Cameron Wolf. |
| 0:23.0 | He's an expert on infectious disease at Duke University. |
| 0:26.6 | He spoke with us about the latest virus |
| 0:28.5 | that we've been hearing so much about. |
| 0:30.8 | Now let's look at questions around monkey pox. |
| 0:33.8 | Concerns are growing now over the potential spread |
| 0:36.8 | of monkey pox here in the US. |
| 0:38.9 | Monkey pox. |
| 0:39.6 | Monkey pox. |
| 0:41.6 | But as Dr. Wolf points out, the name monkey pox |
| 0:45.1 | can give a misleading impression of what we're dealing with. |
| 0:49.1 | You know, that can be a difficult association, |
| 0:50.8 | because it's actually rare that it would be transmitted |
| 0:53.8 | to people from, from apes or monkeys at all. |
| 0:58.2 | The juxtaposition of sick animals with African kids |
| 1:02.9 | afflicted by some illness is a stereotype |
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