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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

The Real Risks of Monkeypox

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Doctors feel confident they can deal with the ongoing monkeypox outbreak. But, once again, our public health agencies have been stumbling to get a hold of this virus before it spreads widely.


Guests: Matt Ford and Shannon Palus, Slate senior editor.


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0:00.0

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0:20.9

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0:26.6

pole, and enjoy your Tails cocktail. Hey everyone, quick heads up, there is some cursing about monkeypox ahead.

0:40.4

You do not want to get the call Matt Ford got a few weeks back.

0:44.5

So for our day June 17th, I got a call from a friend I had been hanging out with the weekend

0:48.4

prior, and basically all at once I learned he was pretty sure he had monkeypox.

0:53.9

His partner and multiple of his friends thought they had monkeypox.

0:58.0

They were just waiting on the Department of Public Health in LA to confirm that,

1:04.8

and I was writing a time frame of when I would have been exposed.

1:10.6

So on that call slash like right after it I checked myself and noticed some bumps that I hadn't

1:16.6

seen before, so in a span of like 15 minutes I went from like living my normal life to oh shut,

1:24.0

I have monkeypox. Next came the flu-like symptoms, the fever, sore throat.

1:30.1

It was like okay I definitely have some kind of viral thing going on, and then that Monday I went in,

1:35.6

had a physical exam, my doctor was like you know it was like I was ET, it was like a patient zero

1:42.9

like quarantine zone going on. Was it like a full face shield and everything? Oh yeah it was like

1:47.9

full PPE, like I think they had like the computer keyboard covered, like it was kind of bizarre.

1:55.4

One of the weird things about getting hit with an emerging infectious disease,

1:59.2

not quickly realized, is that no one knows exactly what to do with you,

2:04.1

and when it comes to monkeypox specifically, even other people who are infected,

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