“It didn’t have to be this hard,” Varma told me. But as the outbreak grows, so, too, does the challenge of combatting it. Controlling the virus isn’t yet out of reach, says Jay Varma, the director of the Cornell Center for Pandemic Prevention and Response. Infections, most among men who have sex with men, have been documented in 46 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico New York State and San Francisco have declared the outbreak a health emergency, as has the World Health Organization, on a global scale. Two months later, global counts have crested above 21,000 confirmed cases, nearly a fourth of which are in the United States, which now ranks first among countries keeping track.
“If there was one virus that would lend itself to containment,” says Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, a virologist and infectious-disease physician at Emory University, this should have been it. resources and ensure they go to those most at risk, send aid abroad, and knock it out of the park. It wasn’t hypertransmissible, moving mainly through intimate contact during the disease’s symptomatic phase previous epidemics had, with few interventions, rather quickly burned themselves out. Unlike SARS-CoV-2, monkeypox was a known entity, a relative softball on the pathogenic field.
Tests and antivirals for the virus already existed the government had stockpiled vaccines. When the monkeypox outbreak was first detected in the United States, it seemed, as far as infectious-disease epidemics go, like one this country should be able to handle.
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