What Next - The Real Risks of Monkeypox
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🗓️ 13 July 2022
⏱️ 27 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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| 0:32.6 | there is some cursing about monkey pox ahead. You do not want to get the call Matt Ford got |
| 0:43.6 | a few weeks back. So Friday, June 17th, I got a call from a friend I had been hanging out with |
| 0:48.4 | the weekend prior and basically all at once I learned he was pretty sure he had monkey pox. His partner |
| 0:56.3 | and multiple of his friends thought they had monkey pox. They were just waiting on the department |
| 1:02.2 | of public health and L.A. to confirm that and I was writing a time frame of when I would have been |
| 1:08.5 | exposed. So on that call slash like right after it, I checked myself and noticed some bumps that I |
| 1:16.8 | hadn't seen before. So in a span of like 15 minutes, I went from like living my normal life to |
| 1:24.1 | oh shut, I have monkey pox. Next came the flu-like symptoms, the fever, sore throat. |
| 1:30.8 | It was like okay, I definitely have some kind of viral thing going on and then that Monday, I went in, |
| 1:36.1 | had a physical exam. My doctor was like, you know, it was like I was ET. It was like a patient zero |
| 1:43.5 | like quarantine zone going on. Was it like a full face shield and everything? Oh yeah, it was like |
| 1:48.4 | full PPE. Like I think they had like the computer keyboard covered. It was kind of bizarre. |
| 1:56.0 | One of the weird things about getting hit with an emerging infectious disease, |
| 1:59.8 | not quickly realized, is that no one knows exactly what to do with you and when it comes to monkey |
| 2:05.9 | pox specifically, even other people who are infected, they may not want to talk about it. |
| 2:11.2 | It's not cute, right? Like you have these lesions all over your body, like nobody's feeling like |
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