However, many students feel the university has not released enough information and have no plans for the upcoming fall semester. After the first case was confirmed at UT Austin, the university’s Health Services Associate Director Susan Hochman claimed the risk of transmission remained low and officials were working to mitigate the risk to students.
We cannot accept doing nothing.”Īmerican universities have been caught wholly unprepared for outbreaks. Public health activist Laura Miers tweeted concernedly about the spread of the virus and the lack of any serious response by the government, noting “So, monkeypox-a virus that can cause blindness, disfigurement, extreme complications, & death-has been reported on at least 5 college campuses & in county jails. The US currently holds the global record for most monkeypox cases. According to on Twitter, 20,000 cases have been identified around the world with US cases jumping 1,900 percent from 244 to 4,639 in just one month. The US reported 1,048 new monkeypox cases Thursday, the biggest one-day increase on record according to BNO News. The monkeypox virus is spreading on an unprecedented level throughout the United States and the world, already constituting a pandemic. This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.
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