Dr. BCW, Dr. Curry-Winchell, talks with Healthline about 11 Monkeypox myths that can be debunked by health experts
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To help provide accurate information about monkeypox, Healthline spoke with medical experts to debunk 11 troubling myths currently circulating about the virus.
You may have heard about monkeypox for the first time in May when Britain reported a case in a resident who had recently returned from Lagos, NigeriaTrusted Source. The U.S. reported its first case later that month in a Massachusetts man who had recently traveled to Canada.
But the truth is, we’ve known about monkeypox for more than six decades.
“Scientists first learned about the virus in 1958 when two outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in colonies of research monkeys,” explains Dr. Bayo Curry-Winchell, the regional clinical director at Carbon Health.
Dr. Mark Fischer, the regional medical director at International SOS, adds that it was first seen in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
But Curry-Winchell says that, until this year, most cases of monkeypox have been limited to several African countries, where the virus is endemic. The World Health Organization (WHO)Trusted Source says monkeypox is endemic in:…
See what else Dr. BCW has to share as she answers questions for Eat This, Not That as they discuss