"It’s going to take a little bit longer to get it under control," said Fuller considering there are multiple hot spots, "but these particular tools and strategies are very effective. The CDC is reporting about a dozen cases of monkeypox as of Friday, and said at least one of the cases is a woman who recently traveled out of the country. "This is something which has been happening for centuries… where Jewish communities were targeted during the bubonic plague in the 1300s, Haitian-Americans were thought to be responsible for the HIV epidemic in the 80s, Mexican-Americans were blamed for H1N1 in 2009," said Dr. He said in just recent years, the queer community was blamed for coronavirus in several countries. Wang sits on multiple boards of local and national LGBTQI+ advocacy organizations, including Seattle Pride. "To me, what is more dangerous I guess than ‘infection’ is how marginalized populations are frequently becoming the scapegoats for these types of outbreaks and infections."ĭr. Kevin Wang, a family physician in the Seattle area. "It just so happens some of the cases where people became infected occurred at gatherings were LGBTQI+ people came together," said Dr.
Currently, cases have been reported across the globe in North America, Europe, the UK and Australia. Health experts said monkeypox has a long incubation period. So that’s why in the past, when we’ve had monkeypox outbreaks, it’s been fairly efficient to get those outbreaks under control because you could quickly diagnose, quarantine, contact trace and we also happen to have an effective vaccine against it." "With monkeypox, it’s generally between zero and one. "R0 (naught) is how many people can you infect if you were infected with a virus, and that particular factor is 12 right now for COVID-19-one person can potentially infect 12 people," said Fuller.