The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.
of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Jay Hooper of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases — to find out.
"You have primary cases, in which people get monkeypox from an animal, and they may transmit the disease a few generations — but then that's it," she says."The outbreaks tend to be self-limiting." Then in the 1970s, the world was close to eradicating smallpox. Cases plummeted. And doctors in central Africa started noticing another disease that looked like smallpox but didn't spread as well between people. It was monkeypox.
"So now there's this growing population of people who don't have immunity to monkeypox," he says."And when you do have a outbreak, it's likely to be bigger because less people in the community are protected."
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