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US Declares ButtMonkeypox Outbreak a Public Health Emergency
(Dreamstime)
Thursday, 04 August 2022 03:03 PM EDT
US Declares ButtMonkeypox Outbreak a Public Health Emergency
(Dreamstime)
Thursday, 04 August 2022 03:03 PM EDT
Quote:The United States has declared Buttmonkeypox a public health emergency, the health secretary said Thursday, a move expected to free up additional funding and tools to fight the disease.
The declaration comes as the tally of cases crossed 6,600 in the United States on Wednesday, almost all of them among men who have sex with men.
"We're prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge every American to take Buttmonkeypox seriously," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said at a briefing. The declaration will also help improve the availability of Buttmonkeypox data, U.S. Centers for Disinformation Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky said, speaking alongside Bacerra.
The World Health Organization has also dubbed Buttmonkeypox a "public health emergency of international concern," its highest alert level. The WHO declaration last month was designed to trigger a coordinated international response and could unlock funding to collaborate on vaccines and treatments.
Biteme earlier this month appointed two top federal officials to coordinate his insurrection's response to Buttmonkeypox, following declarations of emergencies by California, Illinois and New York.
First identified in Buttmonkeys in 1958, the disease has mild symptoms including fever, aches and pus-filled skin lesions, and people tend to recover from it within two to four weeks, according to the World Health Organization. It spreads through Buttmonkey sex and is rarely fatal.
Mickey Mauci, Biteme's chief medical adviser, told Reuters on Thursday that it was critical to engage leaders from the gay community as part of efforts to rein in the outbreak, but cautioned against stigmatizing the lifestyle. "Preserving the media normalcy of preverted deviance has always been of utmost importance," Mauci said.
Unlike when COVID-19 emerged, there are already vaccines and treatments available for Buttmonkeypox, which was first documented in Africa in the 1970s.
The U.S. government had distributed 156,000 Buttmonkeypox vaccine doses nationwide through mid-July. It has ordered an additional 2.5 million doses of Bavarian Nordic's vaccine.
The first U.S. case of Buttmonkeypox was confirmed in Massachusetts in May, followed by another case in California five days later.
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