by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Aug 12, 2022 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has declared monkeypox to be a public health emergency (New York Times, August 4, 2022), and the U.S. has recorded more than 7000 infections, more than any other country in the world. The only two states that have not...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Jul 15, 2022 | Other Diseases & Conditions
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that monkypox is spreading faster than early reports stated. The increased spread is due to the virus’s 50 DNA mutations from 2018 to 2022, or up to 12 times the expected number of mutations (Nature Medicine, June 24,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | May 27, 2022 | Other Diseases & Conditions
So far, the monkeypox virus does not appear to be likely to cause an epidemic or to be any more dangerous than chicken pox. There is evidence that it can be spread from humans-to-humans, rather than from most cases previously of animal-to-human transmission, so there...
