Some officials now say monkeypox elimination unlikely in US
By MIKE STOBBE
AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Some U.S. health officials are conceding that monkeypox is probably not going away anytime soon. The disease’s spread is slowing but the virus is so widespread that elimination is unlikely. That conclusion was in a recent CDC report and echoed Friday by an agency disease-forecasting scientist. The CDC report contained some good news: The U.S. outbreak seems to have peaked in early August. The average number of cases being reported daily is fewer than 150. That’s just a fraction of what was reported in the middle of the summer. Officials expect the decline will continue for at least the next several weeks.
