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Partner contact. you mentioned the festival, for instance. but that is -- >> what demographic are you talking about? >> -- really important -- well, it has been people who self-identify as men who have sex with men or in the gay community. its really important because weve seen this with other infectious diseases like hiv. this is early in the outbreak. its where weve seen current clusters of infections. but it does not mean that this is a disease confined just to that community. again, anyone w...

Would have started now? >> well, youre right. this is a disease, monkeypox, that is present and endemic, as its called, in parts of west and central africa. i grew up in liberia and have practiced in south africa, and have seen cases of monkeypox there. whats unusual about this outbreak, laura, is that its spreading in places that dont typically have infections. how it started is unclear. were getting new clues every day. currently we have clusters of outbreaks in places like spain and portugal ...

Symptoms and how worried should we be about it? the symptoms and how worried should we be about it? _ , :, , :, be about it? the symptoms of monkeypox — be about it? the symptoms of monkeypox usually _ be about it? the symptoms of monkeypox usually start - be about it? the symptoms of monkeypox usually start with | be about it? the symptoms of| monkeypox usually start with a fever, chills, flu—like symptoms and then progress as to the classic rash. now a rash does not have to be everywhere. ...

Decades to what youre talking about here is that monkeypox is that viral is disease, meaning that it normally resides in animals but sometimes it spills over into humans most of it is known to be endemic in certain animal species in central africa and in west africa. these animals tend to be rodents. monkeypox is a misnomer, important to remember that it was first seen in monkeys but really is something that happens in rodents. i think that the key here is that there is the central african clade...

Thankfully that didnt seem to be the case currently. still remains a hard to transmit virus compared to other things like covid. it requires very close human contact. could it be that it just was bad luck of an introduction from a potential travel case on to a vulnerable population with close social network. and the third is, could it be that it was potentially a lot more cases and now that weve raised alarm for it that physicians are looking out for it a lot more? again, the kind of rash of thi...

Because were seeing, as you mentioned, a surge. were seeing very large numbers of cases being reported, and thats in addition to the cases not being reported. and, hospitalizations are start to creep up again. what were seeing with monkeypox are isolated clusters of cases. they are likely associated with either travel to west africa, her baby in clusters of gay men, bisexual men, that may have had contact and were trying to understand what may have driven this. were not seeing thousands of cases...

The cdc is monitoring six possible cases in the country and as you can see on the map on your screen now, multiple clusters around the world, what is monkeypox, how does it spread, what are the symptoms? >> one to a cousin of smallpox. it may be in ancient history, they had the same ancestor, but these are all zoonotic diseases. they lead from animals to humans when they approach on animal territory or when humans eat animals and this is one more in the z key, west nile, ebola, and covid as we l...

Sense we see several cases here and there, but over the day we now seen clusters in many countries throughout the world and by myself, as a person who has spent my entire career studying pox viruses, am definitely perplexed and very interested to understand a lot more about the dynamics here. so am a very concerned? im concerned, im not alarmed, think it is important to understand how these cases occurred, what was the primary introduction, and how many secondary cases are there? going to be ver...

Career working in the democratic republic of congo where monkeypox is endemic and working on monkeypox. its very rare to see this virus spreading outside of the african continent. so this out break all these several clusters of cases are very unusual. clusters of cases are very unusual-— clusters of cases are very unusual. ., �*, , ., unusual. you say its unusual, but how concerning _ unusual. you say its unusual, but how concerning is - unusual. you say its unusual, but how concerning is th...

While the cdc is calling it an emerging issue, my next guest says this is the most important outbreak in the try of monkeypox in the warren hemisphere. joining me is professor of epidemiology. she has been working on monkeypox for 20 years. thank you for joining us? >> monkeypox is a viral zoonautic illness. were seeing clusters in places all over the globe. i actually would maybe revise