{"id":6660,"date":"2022-05-31T16:12:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T20:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2022-06-16T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T19:47:55","slug":"how-worried-should-we-be-about-monkeypox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/2022\/05\/how-worried-should-we-be-about-monkeypox\/","title":{"rendered":"How Worried Should We Be about Monkeypox? Interview with John H. Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Original article from <em>The Brink<\/em> by Doug Most<\/strong><strong class=\"article-header__byline article-header__byline--article\"><span class=\"author | align_items_center bold font_primary margin_right_3\"><span class=\"bold\"><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\" itemprop=\"name\">. May 25<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As if COVID-19 is not enough to worry about, now there is monkeypox. In Boston, one patient hospitalized with the monkeypox virus <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2022\/05\/23\/metro\/boston-monkeypox-patient-had-200-contacts\/\" target=\"_blank\">came in contact with 200 people<\/a> (most of them healthcare workers). And the World Health Organization (WHO) has identified <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/disease-outbreak-news\/item\/2022-DON385\" target=\"_blank\">more than 100 suspected and confirmed cases of the virus<\/a> in an outbreak across Europe and North America. Like similar pox viruses, monkeypox is most often transmitted through close skin-to-skin contact, and can, less easily, be transmitted through respiratory droplets when a patient has lesions in the mouth. Monkeypox symptoms include a fever, headache, exhaustion, and a rash or lesions\u2014about 1 in 10 who contract the disease die from it, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/poxvirus\/monkeypox\/symptoms.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And on Monday even <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/23\/politics\/biden-monkeypox-not-as-bad-as-covid-intl-hnk\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">President Joe Biden weighed in<\/a>, reassuring Americans already exhausted from the COVID-19 experience that the country was ready if it had to take on a new virus. Still, he advised people to be careful.<\/p>\n<p>For some perspective on monkeypox and the level of concern it\u2019s causing, <em>The Brink<\/em> spoke with <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/profile\/john-h-connor\/\" target=\"_blank\">John H. Connor<\/a>, a virologist at Boston University\u2019s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) and a BU School of Medicine associate professor of microbiology.<\/p>\n<p>Click to read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2022\/how-worried-should-we-be-about-monkeypox\/?utm_campaign=bu_today&amp;utm_source=email_20220531&amp;utm_medium=intrograph&amp;utm_content=research_publichealth\">full article in <em>The Brink<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Original article from The Brink by Doug Most. May 25\u00a0,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12938,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3075,1298,3084],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12938"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6662,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/neidl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}