The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a global emergency last week, but in the United States, where the federal response and communication around the crisis has a ways to go, many people don’t know how it spreads, what it looks like or what care they can get if they suspect they’ve been infected.
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re all a little too familiar with the ways that evolving information can seem murky in the early days of an infectious disease outbreak.
MPV, however, isn’t a novel pathogen. There are resources available to treat and prevent monkeypox infection, but the effort to get those to everyone who needs them in a timely manner has so far been hampered by limited supplies and lingering logistical hurdles. |