Scientists warned us about monkeypox in
1988. Here's why they were right.
Posted By: NorthernDog, 5/29/2022 12:57:13 PM
Back in 1988, scientists in London almost seem to have had a crystal ball. Writing in the International Journal of Epidemiology, they made a bold – and surprisingly prescient – prediction about monkeypox: Over time, "the average magnitude and duration of monkeypox epidemics will increase," they wrote. At the time, monkeypox was an extremely rare disease. Health-care workers detected only a few cases a year in West and Central Africa. People caught the disease almost exclusively from rodents or primates and then spread the virus to only a few people. Transmission between people was limited. But the foresighted scientists warned that, over
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We could be seeing just the beginning of a large outbreak. The smallpox vaccine also protected against monkeypox. With smallpox gone, no one is immune to the monkey-cousin virus.