Although the US declared Monkeypox as a public health emergency, the former Head of the US Food and Medicine Administration (FDA) Scott Gottlieb said that it was possible to prevent it from becoming an endemic virus-a prospect official who might fail with Covid-19. Gottlieb said that the response to the virus must be broader to control it.
At present, testing is mainly reserved only for gay and bisexual men – which are mostly cases, he said, Dailymail reported, quoting CBS. Gottlieb believes that more cases will be found if the testing is expanded beyond the community.
His comments arrived a few days after the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) stated the public health emergency over the virus last week. Last week, Gottlieb said that if this disease became endemic, it would be a serious failure because this could be prevented.He noted that – unlike when Covid first appeared – there was a reliable vaccine and the test available to stop the disease in its path. But the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) failed to act quickly, instead of following the same ‘protracted checklist’ and made many mistakes the same as when Covid struck.
He, recently, wrote at The New York Times which if this disease gets a foothold, it will be a disaster because it can be prevented and due to infection – which is blisters throughout the body – painful. Many sufferers say their symptoms are “worse than Covid”.