Boston doctor on monkeypox: ‘We don’t expect these clusters to get bigger’ | Boston.com

CEID Faculty Dr. Nahid Bhadelia shares information on Monkeypox:

“…’Let me start by saying that any monkeypox is a very different virus than COVID-19,’ Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, director of Boston University’s Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy and Research, said on MSNBC Sunday. Monkeypox — which presents with symptoms including a fever, headache, and muscle aches and can progress to create a rash, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — is in the same family as smallpox and chickenpox, Bhadelia said. The good news is the virus is not as deadly as smallpox, she said.

‘The interesting thing here is that because monkeypox and smallpox were so closely related, for a very long time when we were vaccinating against smallpox, it was cross protection against monkeypox,’ Bhadelia said. ‘The theory has been since we eradicated smallpox, and we’re not vaccinating, we created a generation of humans on the face of this earth who are not immune to monkeypox now’…”

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