The Biden administration is declaring a public health emergency for the Monkeypox outbreak happening in the U.S., which now counts more infections from the virus than any other country in the world.
Some have been calling for a federal public health emergency saying it will signal to the country that this is a serious outbreak.detected in the U.S., but that is likely an undercount. The vast majority of cases in the U.S. are concentrated in the gay and queer community, primarily among men who have sex with men.
In the current outbreak, the vast majority of people appear to be catching the virus from sexual contact. However, it's possible for the virus to spread in other ways — including through face-to-face interactions with someone or from touching a contaminated surface — but data show this is exceptionally rare and occurs primarily in households. Experts say it takes prolonged interaction or a lot of the virus to contract the disease this way.
The Administration says it has made more than one million doses of the JYNNEOS vaccine available to states and territories to order. Governors in California, New York and Illinois have already declared state of emergencies in response to the monkeypox outbreak. Some cities, including New York City and San Francisco, have also made their own emergency declarations.
The World Health Organization has already declared the monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. There are currently more than 26,000 cases worldwide.
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