"I want to emphasize that this could be happening in other parts of the United States." And that's why we want to really increase our surveillance efforts," Jennifer McQuiston, who's deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday. "There could be community level transmission that is happening. Here in the U.S., officials don't know where one of the cases caught monkeypox. Goats and Soda OPINION: Media coverage of monkeypox paints it as an African virus. So health officials don't know where people are catching it, and many cases aren't being diagnosed, the scientists conclude. because, by and large, the cases are not linked to each other or linked to a common place or activity.
Two studies, published Thursday, demonstrate the virus is spreading, undetected, in some communities of Portugal and the U.K.
This transmission has "likely been ongoing for several weeks, if not months," she noted. Maria van Kerkhove, with the World Health Organization, on Thursday. Such a broad geographic spread suggests "widespread human-to-human transmission is currently underway," said Dr. and Portugal have detected the most cases, with about 200 and 100 cases in each country, respectively.
Doctors have detected nearly 800 cases across the globe, from Argentina to the United Arab Emirates. Spread to other parts of the body is possible but doesn't always occur.įor the first time in history, the world is facing an international outbreak of monkeypox. The lesions in cases that are part of the 2022 outbreak are often first seen on genitalia or the anus.