President Joe Biden said “everyone should be worried” about the monkeypox outbreak during a Sunday trip to South Korea.
Biden responded to questions about the disease by emphasizing that “if it were to spread, it would be significant,” CBS reported.
Although there are only two confirmed cases of monkeypox in the United States and 80 confirmed worldwide, Biden appeared to be concerned about the disease, which health experts are still studying, Fox News reported. (RELATED: Monkeypox outbreak linked to massive festival for ‘gay fetish community’)
“Everyone should be concerned about [it]“, replied the president when asked about the disease. “We are working on it, difficult to understand what we are doing. »
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“I am stunned by this. Every day I wake up and there are more countries infected,” said virologist and World Health Organization advisory board member Oyewale Tomori. “This is not the kind of spread we have seen in West Africa, so there may be something new happening in the West. »
Although no deaths from monkeypox have been reported, the disease has a potential mortality rate of one in ten according to WHO estimates.
The first case of monkeypox in the United States was confirmed Wednesday by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, while a second case was later confirmed in New York, according to Fox.
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