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Its deep, it moves and those are potential limitations of what were doing, but weve overcome those and we feel that everything we do gets easier. there are also early trials, separate from histosonics, investigating whether histotripsy can work on other parts of the body. peters cancer is now stable but he still has other tumours in his body and he is waiting to see whether histotripsy stimulates an immune response before exploring other treatment options. i think no matter what the outcome on i...

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Have felt stigma or have felt discriminated against because of their diagnoses? >> absolutely, one patient that im following right now for monkeypox went to the er and the moment the nurses and the physician saw these lesion on the face, he felt like he was being treated like a leper. really broke my heart to hear his story. he was quickly placed outside in a room, the er doctor went over to him and said, listen, this is all we can do, we cant do any testing, im not saying thats happening all ov...

The classic definition. anybody who touches an open lesion is susceptible. its rarely spread through surfaces or air. >> good news, i suppose, is that there is a vaccine for monkeypox. bad news, there is more need or even demand in some cases than supply. >> people born before 1973 in this country received a smallpox vaccine which covers this strain of monkeypox. so thats the good news. there is a monkeypox specific vaccine that is being distributed across the country. we have had significant di...

Morning his website posted a new story claiming the left is promoting cannibalism. mark. >> michael george, thanks. now to the latest on the monkeypox outbreak which the white house this week called a public health emergency. the virus has been detected in all but two states. more than 7,000 cases confirmed across the u.s. cbs news medical contributor dr. david agus joins us from los angeles. doctor, thank you asles for joining us. the cdc says the vast majority of cases have involved men havi...

Two-week incubation period from the time you are exposed to when you show symptoms. so people could walk around with the virus and not even know it. >> so do you atribute the rise to maybe a lack of awareness or is it also because of restrictions on the access to the vaccine, is it all of that wrapped up in one. >> i think it is all of that. in my office, luckily were a large corporation, we just got an email saying, hey, listen, if you suspect somebody has monkeypox and you see this lesion, her...

It is not a fatal disease. if you are seeing here united states, we havent reported any fatalities with monkeypox. but there has been a few reported not in unintended countries. the more this virus spreads and where we are going to see in terms of hospitalizations, and the more deaths. the last thing that ill mention, and this is particularly here in new york city, and where the upper center in the united states. we have nearly 1800 cases and counting. and what we talked about with monkeypoxs, w...

The contagious quality of monkeypox. >> exactly. people dont realize the amount of micro abrasions we have on our skin. you dont have to have an open lesion. so just skin to skin rubbing, whether it is nonintimate or intimate contact. absolutely with those lesions because they have millions of viral particles under the pox lesions. >> i heard one doctor say it is simple as sharing of towels, of bed sheets that the lesions could open up and it will leave contaminants in those places, you use it a...

>> reporter: thats important. its called the incubation period. the time between being exposed and first developing symptoms. it can be anywhere from six days to as long as 21 days in this outbreak. >> and then by the 12th, thats a full-on fever. >> reporter: within three days of getting that fever, adam continued to break out in rashes, even in the back of his throat. and those were the worst. adam could hardly eat or even speak. the only thing that seemed to help, gargling with lidocaine solut...

For testing. we all need to be aware of it. but it is not spreading at a rate that we need to be very concerned about and as you just mentioned, it is has a case fatality rate that is exceptionally low. it is not the kind of thing that is not the kind of thing that is causing a lot of people to get very, very sick. what we know about monkeypox is that it really does require some sort of direct contact to spread. a break in the skin, oral contact, touching a lesion. it is probably not aerosolised...