Here's why scientists aren't 'crazy scared' about monkeypox
The monkeypox outbreak has captured the attention of an anxious public that's struggling to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and is on high alert for the next virus that might upend our lives. Fortunately, professionals are a lot calmer about monkeypox than the armchair pundits. "In the last couple of years, everybody's become a virologist," said Paula Cannon, an actual virologist at USC's ...
The monkeypox outbreak has captured the attention of an anxious public that's struggling to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and is on high alert for the next virus that might upend our lives.
Fortunately, professionals are a lot calmer about monkeypox than the armchair pundits.
"In the last couple of years, everybody's become a virologist," said Paula Cannon, an actual virologist at USC's Keck School of Medicine. "We don't have to get crazy scared."
Unlike the situation two years ago with the then-novel coronavirus, scientists are already familiar with this virus. They know monkeypox is nowhere near as transmissible as COVID-19, nor is it particularly deadly. They know how it spreads and how it can be stopped.
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