The Biden administration has announced its plans to finally end the emergency declaration for &#8230; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/monkeypox" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monkeypox</a>.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday that it would not renew the emergency declaration for the monkeypox epidemic when it expires on January 31. HHS cited a continuing declining trend in total case counts as the reason it was not renewing the emergency. The news comes even as the Biden administration reportedly has no plans to lift the COVID emergency declaration.
&#8220;From the outset of the mpox outbreak, the Administration pulled every lever to stop the spread of this virus,&#8221; HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/12/02/statement-from-hhs-secretary-becerra-on-mpox.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> Friday announcing the decision. &#8220;In August, the Department of Health and Human Services declared a Public Health Emergency that further strengthened and accelerated the response to produce results. Given the low number of cases today, HHS does not expect that it needs to renew the emergency declaration when it ends on January 31, 2023.&#8221; Becerra said that public health officials would continue to work with state and local officials to monitor trends, and encouraged at-risk individuals to get vaccinated.
Case counts of monkeypox have steadily trended downward since the peak of the outbreak in August, according to <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/mpx-trends.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). So far this week, a total of 31 new cases were reported, with a seven-day rolling average of just seven. Just a single new case was reported on Sunday; 13 cases were reported on Monday; just five on Tuesday; and 16 on Wednesday.
At the height of the epidemic in July and August, several hundred new cases were being reported every day, at an average of about 450 per day. The highest single-day number of new cases reported was 638 on August 1. HHS declared an <a href="https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PHE/Pages/monkeypox-4Aug22.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emergency</a> on August 4. The declaration was <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3715547-hhs-renews-public-health-emergency-for-monkeypox-outbreak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renewed</a> earlier this month.
Just days ago, the White House backed the World Health Organization&#8217;s move to rename the virus from monkeypox to &#8220;mpox&#8221; in order to remove racist &#8220;stigma&#8221; against Africans, since the virus is endemic to Africa.
&#8220;We welcome the change by the World Health Organization,&#8221; Becerra said in a <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/11/28/biden-harris-administration-supports-the-world-health-organization-renaming-of-monkeypox-to-mpox.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> Monday. &#8220;We must do all we can to break down barriers to public health, and reducing stigma associated with disease is one critical step in our work to end mpox.&#8221;
In response to the name change, all federal public health agencies would adopt the &#8220;mpox&#8221; name in their correspondence with medical professionals and the public. HHS said that changing the name of the virus would &#8220;help enhance the U.S. response to mpox by using a term that does not conjure bias or stigma,&#8221; and &#8220;aid efforts to reach the most impacted communities with a term for the disease that doesn’t act to marginalize individuals from accessing the care, resources, and support they need to protect themselves and others.&#8221;
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has no plans to revoke the COVID emergency declaration. According to a report from <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3735058-u-s-to-continue-covid-public-health-emergency-through-january/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hill</a>, HHS is supposed to inform stakeholders 60 days beforehand that the administration will not renew the emergency declaration. That deadline passed on November 14. The latest declaration will last until January 11.

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Biden Administration Finally Announces End Of Emergency Declaration For … Monkeypox

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Shortly after announcing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a>’s first two deaths linked to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/monkeypox" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monkeypox</a> on Friday, the city’s health department explained that, from now on, it will refer to the virus as MPV.
Monkeypox, which largely transmits through sexual intercourse between men, hit the U.S. earlier this year and has infected nearly 30,000 Americans, killing six as of Friday, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Along with expressing concern for the virus itself, the NYC Health Department also <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/2-deaths-in-new-york-city-linked-to-monkeypox-officials-say/3917779/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> it is worried about the “inaccurate and stigmatizing label” that comes with the virus’ name.
“Moving forward, the Health Department will refer to the virus as MPV. The previous name is an inaccurate and stigmatizing label for a virus that is primarily affecting a community that has already suffered a long history of bigotry,” the city’s health department said.
According to NYC Health, referring to the virus as monkeypox can keep people from seeking treatment if they contract the virus because of a “stigma.” The health department said it also requested the World Health Organization to change the virus’ name.
NYC Health encouraged “anyone of any sexual orientation or gender identity who is at risk” to get both doses of the monkeypox vaccine at any city-run vaccination site.
While monkeypox is not spread exclusively through sex, the disease is infecting gay men at a far higher rate than any other demographic. The latest <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/data/health-tools/monkeypox.page#surveillance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> from New York City shows that those who identify as LGBTQ currently make up 2,384 (64%) of the city&#8217;s 3,703 monkeypox cases, and men make up 3,466 (94%) of the cases.
According to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/if-sick/transmission.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDC</a>, monkeypox can spread through skin to skin contact that often happens through hugging, kissing, extended face-to-face contact, and sexual intercourse. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough, sore throat, and nasal congestion. The disease can also cause painful rashes and blisters.

NYC Will No Longer Refer To Virus As Monkeypox To Avoid ‘Inaccurate And Stigmatizing Label’

NYC Health Department To Refer To Monkeypox As MPV To Avoid 'Inaccurate And Stigmatizing Label'

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Cases of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in the U.S. increased during the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pandemic</a> in 2021, with syphilis cases experiencing the highest surge in nearly 70 years.
The preliminary data covering cases for chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and congenital syphilis last year showed an increase in all four types of STDs.
&#8220;STDs continued to increase during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, with no signs of slowing,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/std/statistics/2021/default.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated.
In an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/15/cdc-data-std-rates-2021-00056811" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with Politico, CDC Division of STD Prevention Director Leandro Mena blamed the underfunding of public health programs for the increased number of cases. Increased opioid and methamphetamine usage has also led to the increased sharing of needles, Mena also mentioned, along with the decreased usage of condoms among younger Americans.
Overall, the number of reported STDs in the U.S. rose from 2.4 million in 2020 to 2.5 million in 2021. Cases of chlamydia dropped between 2017 and 2020, but rose again in the past year to more than 1.6 million cases.
Gonorrhea cases reached more than 696,000 in 2021, a notable increase over the reported 555,608 cases just four years earlier in 2017. Congenital syphilis cases reached 2,677 last year, up from 941 in 2017.
Syphilis ranked as the largest area of increased cases in the report. The nation saw an increase of nearly 26% of total annual syphilis cases in one year, with just over 171,000 people with confirmed infections in 2021.
“In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically disrupted life as we knew it, and while there were moments in 2020 when it felt like the world was standing still, sexually transmitted diseases were not,” Jonathan Mermin, the director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, <a href="https://www.idse.net/HIV-AIDS--STIs/Article/04-22/STDs-Increase-During-the-Pandemic/66736?utm_source=Social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=0413stdin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in April. “The unrelenting momentum of STDs continued, even as prevention and treatment services were disrupted. New data CDC data suggests STDs increased during the first year of the pandemic.”
The concerns have been further complicated by the recent outbreak of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/monkeypox-cases-now-reported-in-all-50-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monkeypox</a> cases nationwide, In August, the monkeypox virus reached all 50 states after Wyoming reported its first positive case.
“Because monkeypox spreads through close, intimate contact we do not believe the risk for the virus is now a higher concern for the local community or for most people in Wyoming,” Alexia Harrist, state health officer and state epidemiologist with the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said in a <a href="https://health.wyo.gov/wyomings-first-monkeypox-case-identified/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on last month. “Monkeypox does not spread easily like familiar viruses such as influenza or COVID-19.”
By late August, more than 15,400 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-monkeypox-cases-over-15400-more-than-any-other-country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed cases</a> had been reported across the U.S., accounting for nearly 36% of all cases worldwide. New York, California, Florida, Texas, Georgia, and Illinois ranked as the top five states in terms of the number of cases.
The first <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/3640317-first-us-monkeypox-death-confirmed-in-california/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed case</a> of a U.S. death due to monkeypox was reported this week in California.

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Senator <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/rand-paul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) threatened Dr. <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/anthony-fauci/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anthony Fauci</a> during a testy hearing on Wednesday, making it abundantly clear that things would be different if Republicans were to gain control of Congress in the fast-approaching <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/youre-not-worried-that-this-reflects-poorly-chuck-todd-grills-vp-over-democrats-midterm-strategy/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">midterm elections</a>.
Fauci, who was on Capitol Hill to discuss the federal government&#8217;s response to monkeypox, has sparred with the Kentucky Senator on a number of occasions — and Wednesday&#8217;s hearing was no exception.
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Rand Paul confronts Fauci on his clip saying that getting infected protects you from a virus more than vaccines:
Fauci: “That film you showed was really taken out of context… Reuters fact checked that.”
Paul: “Actually, words don’t lie.” <a href="https://t.co/bJKhlYNt5E">pic.twitter.com/bJKhlYNt5E</a>
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Paul began with a video of Fauci responding to a question about a patient who wondered whether it would be necessary or wise to get a flu shot after previously being infected with the virus — to which Fauci said no. He explained at the time that previous infection provided protection just like a vaccine would.
&#8220;When people decry vaccine hesitancy, it’s coming from the gobbledygook that you give us. You’re not paying attention to the science. The very basic science is that previous infection provides a level of immunity,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;If you ignore that in your studies, if you don’t present that in your committees, you’re not being truthful.&#8221;
Fauci objected, first claiming that the video was &#8220;out of context&#8221; and then insisting, &#8220;I have never, ever denied fundamental immunology. In fact, I wrote the chapter in the Textbook of Medicine on fundamental immunology.&#8221;
Paul pushed back, however, noting that in nearly every study determining whether or not additional booster shots were necessary — particularly with regard to COVID vaccines — no one was considering whether or not a person had been previously infected as a factor.
Paul then turned on Fauci directly, adding, &#8220;We’ve been asking you and you refuse to answer whether anybody on the vaccine committees gets royalties from the pharmaceutical companies. I asked you last time and what was your response? &#8216;We don’t have to tell you.'&#8221;
&#8220;But I’ll tell you this, when we get in charge, we’re going change the rules and you will have to divulge where you get your royalties from, from what companies, and if anybody on the committee has a conflict of interest. We’re gonna learn about it. I promise you that,&#8221; he said.

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‘We’re Going To Change The Rules’: Rand Paul Threatens Fauci In Testy Senate Spat

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Photos of Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, Democrat President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> White House deputy coordinator for combatting <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/monkeypox" target="_blank" rel="noopener">monkeypox</a>, went viral Wednesday afternoon following remarks that he delivered about the virus.
Daskalakis, who was named to the position after serving as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#8217;s (CDC) director of HIV prevention, said that the virus &#8220;transmits through very close skin to skin physical contact, often in the setting of sexual exposure, but there are other mechanisms for its transmission, including if you touch objects of individuals who&#8217;ve had monkey pox touch or if, if you have prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets.&#8221;
Daskalakis then appeared to suggest that there are &#8220;men who have sex with men&#8221; who are not gay and who are not transgender.
&#8220;With that said, signaling to people who are in the gay, bisexual, other men who have sex with men communities, and also transgender people who have sex with men, that it&#8217;s really important to have awareness, that it&#8217;s circulating in the community is really a critical part of the messaging while not generating inordinate concern and really focusing on the infection as linked to an identity,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So it&#8217;s just an infection that&#8217;s not linked to an identity. It just happens to be in the social network.&#8221;
Journalist Tom Elliott then posted a thread of photos on Twitter showing Daskalakis wearing raunchy outfits, some of which appeared to be in settings for photo shoots.
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Picture I found when googling him <a href="https://t.co/SG8YUWaPh5">pic.twitter.com/SG8YUWaPh5</a>
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2) Nothing screams &quot;expert coming through!&quot; like a black leather biker hat w/ matching leather chest straps. Shirts are overrated anyway. <a href="https://t.co/Yiyw0Jbliu">pic.twitter.com/Yiyw0Jbliu</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1567618091495866369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
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This comes after the Biden administration hired Sam Brinton, who dresses in drag, at the Department of Energy.
Brinton, deputy assistant secretary for Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy, has courted controversy with his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/radioactivenerd1/?hl=en">open advocacy</a> of sexual fetishism and “<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170709013033/https:/poly.rpi.edu/2017/04/12/nuclear_policy_expert_discusses_sex_kinks/">puppy play</a>,” a sexual “kink” involving role-playing as animals. The newly resurfaced, seven-year-old essay he wrote for The Advocate, in which he defended Rentboy.com, and which was first reported by <a href="https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/07/05/biden-doe-official-defended-underage-sex-site/">The National Pulse</a>, is likely to raise more eyebrows.
“Rentboy.com may or may not have broken the law,” Brinton wrote. “I don’t know. But I do know, from the frantic emails filling my inbox, that the raid on its headquarters has thrown many gay, bisexual, and transgender young adults into turmoil as their main source of income has been ripped away due to irresponsible and archaic views of sex work.”
The column ran shortly after federal prosecutors charged Rentboy.com CEO Jeffrey Hurant and six Rentboy.com employees with conspiring to violate the Travel Act by promoting prostitution. The site advertised male escort services, but federal prosecutors said at the time it was “designed primarily for advertising illegal prostitution.”
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The Department of Energy’s new hire Sam Brinton making everyone feel extremely comfortable always <a href="https://t.co/QRMHmNBc03">pic.twitter.com/QRMHmNBc03</a>
&mdash; Mandy Stadtmiller (@mandystadt) <a href="https://twitter.com/mandystadt/status/1492172351688953857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 11, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Sam Brinton, Biden Dept. of Energy hire is a nonbinary drag queen — &#39;an asset,&#39; say queer activists <a href="https://t.co/tMM5esLiWu">pic.twitter.com/tMM5esLiWu</a>
&mdash; Willie Colón (@williecolon) <a href="https://twitter.com/williecolon/status/1559317457512419328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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You go back in time and have to explain this picture to someone from 2005. How do you explain what’s going on and how we got here? <a href="https://t.co/aG9gKib85O">pic.twitter.com/aG9gKib85O</a>
&mdash; Allie Beth Stuckey (@conservmillen) <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen/status/1548021423821623304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 15, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Hank Berrien contributed to this report.

White House Monkeypox Briefing

Photos Of Biden Monkeypox Official Go Viral After Unusual Remarks At Press Conference

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The White House asked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress">Congress</a> for another $47 billion Friday to address what it considers “immediate needs,” including the spread of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/monkeypox">monkeypox</a> at home and abroad, the never-ending fight against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/covid-19">COVID</a>, and the defense of Ukraine.
President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>’s request to Congress is aimed at keeping the government open beyond the September 30 expiration of the 2022 fiscal year, according to administration officials, Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/02/white-house-requests-47-billion-in-aid-for-ukraine-covid-monkeypox-and-natural-disasters-00054689">reported</a>. The requested $47 billion includes $6.5 billion to address the recent flooding in Kentucky and wildfires in California, but that’s just a little over half of the $11.7 billion Biden wants to send to Ukraine.
“This Administration will continue to work with members of both parties in Congress to meet these critical needs for the American people, and we look forward to reaching a bipartisan funding agreement that advances national priorities in the coming fiscal year,” Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/briefing-room/2022/09/02/meeting-critical-needs-for-the-american-people-in-the-new-fiscal-year/">wrote</a> Friday.
While the administration carved out some funding to address natural disasters at home, there was no mention of Biden wanting Congress to send money to address the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/mississippi-water-crisis-drags-into-fifth-day">water crisis</a> in Jackson, Mississippi, that has now dragged on for five days. Instead, the president set his short-term priorities on throwing more money toward combatting the already slowing spread of viruses and aiding the war defense of a foreign nation.
Biden’s request for more money to be sent to fund Ukraine&#8217;s defense during Russia’s invasion comes on top of $40 billion the country is set to receive from the U.S. from a package <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senate-advances-massive-40-billion-ukraine-spending-package-11-republicans-oppose">approved</a> by Congress in May.
The largest chunk of money in the request, $22.4 billion, would go to the continued fight against COVID, while the administration is asking for $3.9 billion to address monkeypox in the U.S. and another $600 million to be spent around the globe to “fight monkeypox.”
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the spread of monkeypox is slowing, but the agency warned that it still poses a risk if not contained, Politico reported. The White House reaffirmed its commitment to spending billions of dollars to “fight” the disease that <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-health-and-wellness/sex-men-not-skin-contact-fueling-monkeypox-new-research-suggests-rcna43484">experts say</a> is mostly spread through the sexual intercourse of gay men.
“While we have accelerated the distribution of hundreds of thousands of vaccines, made testing more available, and expanded access to tens of thousands of courses of treatment to reach the highest-risk population, we cannot let up until we end the current outbreak and are prepared for future monkeypox or smallpox outbreaks,” the White House said.
Congress will now have to consider Biden’s request and come to an agreement on a short-term spending bill before discussing the longer-term government funding that will begin with a new fiscal year on October 1.

Ukraine, COVID, And Monkeypox: Biden Asks Congress For Another $47 Billion To Address ‘Critical Needs For The American People’

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Reuters was forced to fact-check claims that Texas gubernatorial candidate <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/very-clearly-staged-cbs-reporter-says-beto-used-seat-holders-to-slip-into-abbott-presser-unnoticed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke</a> (D) had contracted monkeypox after the former congressman announced he was taking some time to recover from an undisclosed illness.
&#8220;After feeling ill on Friday, I went to Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where I was diagnosed with a bacterial infection,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/hell-yes-gun-grabbing-beto-is-back-people-who-own-ar-15s-shouldnt-be-able-to-keep-them/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">O&#8217;Rourke</a> tweeted on Sunday. &#8220;The extraordinary team there — from custodians to nurses and doctors — gave me excellent care and attention, including IV antibiotics and rest.&#8221;
&#8220;While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors&#8217; recommendations,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able.&#8221;
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While my symptoms have improved, I will be resting at home in El Paso in accordance with the doctors’ recommendations.
I am sorry to have had to postpone events because of this, but promise to be back on the road with you as soon as I am able.
&mdash; Beto O&#39;Rourke (@BetoORourke) <a href="https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1563981544544509952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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The majority of people responded to the news by wishing O&#8217;Rourke a speedy recovery. However, shortly after he made the announcement, a few people began to tweet their (unfounded) suspicions that the Texas politician was actually recovering from monkeypox.
&#8220;Has anyone in the media even asked Beto O&#8217;Rourke who he got monkeypox from?&#8221; @PartymanRandy tweeted. &#8220;If a Republican had to suspend their campaign due to monkeypox, you know the media would demand every detail. But since it&#8217;s Beto O&#8217;Rourke who has monkeypox, they aren&#8217;t even curious.&#8221;
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If a republican had to suspend their campaign due to monkeypox, you know the media would demand every detail.
But since it&#39;s Beto O&#39;Rourke who has monkeypox, they aren&#39;t even curious.
&mdash; The Partyman (@PartymanRandy) <a href="https://twitter.com/PartymanRandy/status/1564622074169229325?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;How did Beto get monkeypox?&#8221; another asked.
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How did Beto get monkeypox??
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Despite the lack of any evidence confirming the rumor, enough people began spreading it that Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/factcheck-beto-bacterial-infection/fact-check-beto-orourke-battling-a-bacterial-infection-spokesperson-says-idUSL1N3051YN" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stepped in</a> and published a fact check stating that the claims were false.
Noting that the people who originally began circulating the claim had not presented any evidence, the outlet also pointed out the fact that monkeypox is a virus — related to smallpox and cowpox — rather than a bacterial infection that can be treated with simple antibiotics.
Reuters also published a statement from a spokesperson for O&#8217;Rourke, who said, &#8220;The claims are false. Doctors diagnosed Beto with a bacterial infection, which they treated with antibiotics. His symptoms continue to improve and he will be back on the road as soon as he is able.&#8221;
As for Reuters&#8217; final verdict on the issue?
&#8220;No evidence. Beto O’Rourke’s spokesperson told Reuters that the Democratic candidate for Governor fell ill from a bacterial infection, not monkeypox.&#8221;

Beto O’Rourke Campaigns For Governor Of Texas

Reuters Forced To Fact-Check Claims That Beto O’Rourke Caught Monkeypox

Reuters Forced To Fact-Check Claims That Beto O'Rourke Caught Monkeypox

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The monkeypox virus has now reached all 50 states after Wyoming reported its first positive case on Monday.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provided the information in its most recent <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">update</a>.
“Because monkeypox spreads through close, intimate contact we do not believe the risk for the virus is now a higher concern for the local community or for most people in Wyoming,” Alexia Harrist, state health officer and state epidemiologist with the Wyoming Department of Health (WDH) said in a <a href="https://health.wyo.gov/wyomings-first-monkeypox-case-identified/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> on Monday. “Monkeypox does not spread easily like familiar viruses such as influenza or COVID-19.”
The state is currently offering the monkeypox vaccine for eligible recipients, according to the statement.
As of August 22, a total of 15,433 confirmed cases of monkeypox/orthopoxvirus have been <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recorded</a> by the CDC, though zero deaths have been confirmed. New York leads among states with 2,910 cases, followed by California with 2,663 cases.
Globally, more than 42,000 cases have been reported, with the U.S. having the most cases, followed by Spain at 6,119 cases. No other nation has currently reported more than 3,500 cases.
The Department of Human and Health Services (DHS) <a href="https://aspr.hhs.gov/legal/PHE/Pages/monkeypox-4Aug22.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> monkeypox a public health emergency on August 4.
&#8220;In light of evolving circumstances on the ground, I am declaring a public health emergency on #monkeypox,&#8221; DHS Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote. &#8220;We are prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus. We urge every American to take monkeypox seriously.&#8221;
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In light of evolving circumstances on the ground, I am declaring a public health emergency on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/monkeypox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#monkeypox</a>. We are prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus. We urge every American to take monkeypox seriously.
&mdash; Secretary Xavier Becerra (@SecBecerra) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecBecerra/status/1555273167320584193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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On Thursday, the White House released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/18/fact-sheet-white-house-announces-new-actions-to-combat-monkeypox-outbreak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact sheet</a> to announce new actions to combat the monkeypox outbreak. The actions include making 1.8 million vaccine doses available.
President Joe Biden also <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/02/president-biden-announces-team-to-lead-monkeypox-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> new leadership to oversee the nation&#8217;s monkeypox response earlier this month. The president named FEMA’s Robert Fenton as the White House national monkeypox response coordinator and Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as the White House national monkeypox response deputy coordinator.
The first case of monkeypox was confirmed in the U.S. on May 18, according to the announcement.
&#8220;Over the coming weeks, under the leadership of Fenton and Daskalakis, the Administration will advance and accelerate the United States’ monkeypox response to mitigate the spread of the virus, protect individuals most at risk of contracting the virus, and care for those who have been afflicted with it,&#8221; the White House <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/08/02/president-biden-announces-team-to-lead-monkeypox-response/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> read.
According to the CDC, monkeypox can <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spread</a> to anyone through direct contact with monkeypox rash, scabs, or body fluids from a person with monkeypox, touching objects, fabrics, and surfaces that have been used by someone with monkeypox, or contact with respiratory secretions. &#8220;This direct contact can happen during intimate contact,&#8221; the CDC adds.
The illness generally lasts two to four weeks and is rarely fatal, according to the CDC&#8217;s description. Monkeypox can also be spread from animals, it added.

Monkeypox Cases Now Reported In All 50 States

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The U.S. has the most monkeypox cases in the world with over 15,400 confirmed cases this week, accounting for nearly 36 percent of all cases worldwide.
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html">Globally</a>, there are over 42,900 reported cases and 12 reported deaths. The U.S. has no reported deaths so far. 
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the top ten states with the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/us-map.html">most cases</a> are the following (in order from greatest to least): New York, California, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Washington state. The CDC also included Washington, D.C. in its case counts, which had slightly more cases than the state of Washington. Last month, New York <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/150000-new-yorkers-at-risk-for-monkeypox-officials-declare-public-health-emergency">declared</a> a public health emergency over monkeypox.
Spain comes second to the U.S. in monkeypox cases. They have just over 6,100 cases — less than half of total U.S. cases.
The seven locations abroad that have historically experienced monkeypox outbreaks make up less than one percent of all cases presently. Altogether, they have less than 400 cases. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has 163 cases, Nigeria has 157, Ghana has 47, the Central African Republic has 8, Cameroon has 7, the Republic of the Congo has 3, and Liberia has 2. Three of these locations — Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Ghana — account for 7 of the 12 deaths. 
On Monday, the CDC announced that the monkeypox outbreak caused about 50 percent of gay and bisexual men surveyed to change their sexual behaviors. Multiple studies have indicated that the LGBTQ+ community harbors the vast majority of cases. The CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/cdc-response.html">warns</a> on its website that monkeypox mostly affects men who have intercourse with men. 
“Many — though not all — of the reported monkeypox cases have been among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men,” stated the CDC. “Because of this, CDC has emphasized the need to identify and use specific channels to promote messages that directly reach gay and bisexual men (across racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and geographic backgrounds).”
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In an online survey of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men conducted during August 5-15, 2022, respondents reported changing their behavior because of the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/monkeypox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#monkeypox</a> outbreak. 
For more data on the 2022 U.S. monkeypox outbreak, visit <a href="https://t.co/QpblepCma5">https://t.co/QpblepCma5</a> <a href="https://t.co/kZld53MB96">pic.twitter.com/kZld53MB96</a>
&mdash; CDC (@CDCgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1561812645312970752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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CDC data trends <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/mpx-trends.html">indicate</a> that monkeypox cases have grown exponentially in the U.S. since the concluding weeks of Pride Month, which is June. The first U.S. case was reported in mid-May. 
As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-monkeypox-czar-says-vaccines-will-now-be-available-at-large-lgbt-events">reported</a> last Friday, the White House Monkeypox Response Coordinator, Bob Fenton, said that the administration would distribute up to 50,000 monkeypox vaccines at “large LGBT events.” However, the Biden administration has shown reluctance to connect the monkeypox outbreak with the sexual activities of gay and bisexual men.
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Did you know there are two vaccines that can protect from monkeypox? Here are some facts about the vaccines used to prevent monkeypox infection. <a href="https://t.co/74f9HYKRk1">https://t.co/74f9HYKRk1</a>
&mdash; CDC (@CDCgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1561729912255516672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Fenton’s action came several weeks after President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-names-monkeypox-czar-after-3-states-declare-state-of-emergency">appointed</a> him to the position. The Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-says-u-s-may-need-7-billion-for-monkeypox">revealed</a> late last month that they may apply around $7 billion to respond to the monkeypox outbreak. 
Monkeypox illness normally lasts 2-4 weeks. Symptoms include a pox rash that looks like pimples or blisters, fever, swollen lymph nodes, chills, muscle aches, headaches, exhaustion, sore throat, nasal congestion, and a cough.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DYK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DYK</a>? People with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/monkeypox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#monkeypox</a> may experience all or only a few symptoms. Monkeypox illness typically lasts 2-4 weeks. If you have a new or unexplained rash or other symptoms, contact a healthcare provider to get checked out. <a href="https://t.co/W06gLLLBNd">https://t.co/W06gLLLBNd</a>.
&mdash; CDC (@CDCgov) <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCgov/status/1560280365633155072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 18, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Although transmission normally occurs between humans, the CDC now warns that animals may contract monkeypox. The CDC <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-changes-guidance-after-gay-couple-likely-infected-their-dog-with-monkeypox">updated</a> its guidance in recent weeks after a gay couple from France may have transmitted monkeypox to their dog. The couple contracted monkeypox after engaging in sexual activity with multiple other partners. Two weeks after becoming symptomatic, the couple’s dog tested positive for monkeypox. 
To learn more about the monkeypox epidemic, read The Daily Wire’s in-depth report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-monkeypox-outbreak">here</a>.

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U.S. Monkeypox Cases Over 15,400 — More Than Any Other Country

On Thursday, speaking of federal agencies and their overbearing effect on the American populace which has no recourse to challenge them, Daily Wire Editor Emeritus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ben-shapiro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ben Shapiro</a> said bluntly, “The regulatory state needs to die. A stake needs to be driven through its heart.”
Shapiro addressed the CDC and it’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, admitting it needed to reorganize. Then he turned to the reluctance by much of the federal bureaucracy to admit that the monkeypox outbreak has been driven by men in the homosexual community.
“Best scientific story today,” he stated. “This is from NBC News. So you may have noticed because it&#8217;s perfectly obvious that sex between gay men was causing the spread of monkeypox. You may have noticed this because all statistics showed it, that 96% of new monkeypox cases were from men who were having sex with other men.”
“But you weren&#8217;t allowed to say that,” he noted. “It was ‘skin to skin contact.’”
He quoted, “According to NBCNews.com, ‘Since the outset of the global monkeypox outbreak in May, public health and infectious disease experts have told the public that the virus is largely transmitted through skin to skin contact, in particular during sex between men. Now, however, an expanding cadre of experts has come to believe that sex between men itself, both anal as well as oral, is likely the main driver of global monkeypox transmis —’”
“Wait, you&#8217;re saying shaking hands with gay dudes is not going to give you monkeypox? &#8230; I&#8217;m bewildered and shocked. No, no, that&#8217;s crazy talk,” he quipped.
“I mean, we knew this from literally the first day that the data were reported because it was all happening in sexually transmitted disease vectors because it was not people shaking hands, it was not people giving hugs,” he pointed out. “The skin contact that comes with sex, these experts say it&#8217;s probably much less of a risk factor.”
“Well, I&#8217;m glad that you guys, we&#8217;re all on top of this. It only took you a few months to notice,” he asserted.
“I know these are very difficult things to say in a society that has decided that the highest value in life is in fact sexual self-definition and anonymous sex, that these are the most important things you can tell people,” he continued. “Again, I&#8217;ll never get over this. You can tell people for two years, they have to lockdown, close their businesses, shutter their livelihoods, destroy their dreams, take their kids out of school, not see dying relatives, not hang out with close friends within six feet. You can do all of that in order to prevent the transmission of a virus that is extraordinarily unlikely to kill you if you are young and healthy. But you simply cannot say to gay men, ‘Stop nailing other anonymous dudes. Just don&#8217;t.’ You can&#8217;t say that. It&#8217;s impossible. Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations, by the way.”
“The bureaucracy is infected with left wing ideology, and that has a massive impact on how they actually do their jobs,” he declared. “If you think ideology does not affect bureaucracy, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re being stupid. The baseline notion of a bureaucratic state which was imposed by Woodrow Wilson in the early 20th century, is that there be a cadre of experts that know better than you, that they have a specific area of expertise, and that area of expertise is where they know all the detail, they know all the things, and therefore we can&#8217;t vote on those things because you don&#8217;t have the expertise, they have the expertise and it will be nonpartisan and it will be the most knowledgeable because after all, it&#8217;s just an application of data to problems.”
“And so if we do that, we can solve all the problems,” he mocked. “Well, as it turns out, that&#8217;s not how human beings work. Turns out the bureaucrats very often have a political agenda. When people talk about the deep state, the deep state doesn&#8217;t just reside in the FBI or the DOJ. There&#8217;s a deep state in every bureaucratic agency. There&#8217;s an embedded institutional attitude at the State Department in one direction.”
“There&#8217;s an embedded institutional attitude at the CDC,” he charged. “And these embedded institutional attitudes have a massive impact on how regulation is done, which is why the regulatory state needs to die. A stake needs to be driven through its heart. Instead, rulemaking needs to be done at the legislative level. These are political issues. These are not questions of expertise. These are political issues. Everything when it comes to electoral politics is political and pretending otherwise you end up with a bunch of morons in charge of the levers of power, ideologically driven morons.”

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Shapiro: ‘The Regulatory State Needs To Die. A Stake Needs To Be Driven Through Its Heart.’

Ben Shapiro Crushes The Regulatory State

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The <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration">Biden administration</a> is allowing state governments to order <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/monkeypox">monkeypox</a> vaccines for distribution at “large LGBT events,” White House Monkeypox Response Coordinator Bob Fenton said on Thursday.
Multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-report-shows-lgbtq-community-hit-hardest-by-monkeypox">reports</a> show that the virus is particularly spreading through communities of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">homosexual</a> and bisexual men. Fenton accordingly <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/08/18/press-briefing-by-white-house-monkeypox-response-team-and-public-health-officials-2/">said</a> during a teleconference that local governments can target vaccination efforts toward such communities.
“Today we’re announcing that states and localities will be able to request and receive additional vaccines to support vaccination efforts at large LGBT events in the coming weeks and months,” Fenton explained. “HHS is launching a pilot program that will provide up to 50,000 doses from the national stockpile to be made available for Pride and other events that will have high attendance of gay and bisexual men. These doses will be on top of jurisdictions’ existing allocations and supply of vaccine.”
Multiple states have officially <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-names-monkeypox-czar-after-3-states-declare-state-of-emergency">declared</a> emergencies as the virus continues to spread. In particular, San Francisco and New York City have thus far been epicenters, with nearly half of outbreaks occurring in California, New York, and Illinois.
Monkeypox can spread through skin to skin contact that often happens through hugging, kissing, extended face-to-face contact, and sexual intercourse, according to the <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/transmission.html">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a>. Symptoms include fever, headache, cough, sore throat, and nasal congestion, as well as painful rashes and blisters.
The Biden administration has <a href="https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2022/07/01/hhs-orders-2-point-5-million-more-doses-jynneos-vaccine-for-monkeypox-preparedness.html">ordered</a> over four million doses of monkeypox vaccines to manage the outbreak as of early July, including a $120 million <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-places-another-bulk-order-of-monkeypox-vaccines">purchase</a> of 500,000 doses in June. According to Fenton, the strategy to “meet people where they are” is an “important” and “innovative” approach to combating the virus.
The city of San Francisco — which currently has 610 <a href="https://sf.gov/information/monkeypox-cases">reported cases</a> of the virus — has drawn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/san-fransisco-to-hold-gay-sex-festival-despite-city-declaring-emergency-over-monkeypox-outbreak">criticism</a> for recently holding the “Up Your Alley” annual festival popular among homosexual men despite its local health emergency declaration. The event features kink demonstrations, dancing, and shopping.
Some Democratic lawmakers have claimed that asking homosexual men to refrain from having intercourse constitutes latent stigma toward the group. “If people want to have sex, they are going to have sex,” California State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat who represents San Francisco, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-dem-senator-on-monkeypox-response-i-know-people-who-normally-go-to-sex-parties-who-will-not" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explained</a>. “I know people who normally go to sex parties who will not. People will make their own decisions about their own risk levels.”
The Biden administration recently estimated that $7 billion could be necessary to combat monkeypox, according to a memo obtained by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/26/monkeypox-aid-biden-administration-congress/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Washington Post</a>. The document followed more than 100 Democrats in the House of Representatives <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-says-u-s-may-need-7-billion-for-monkeypox">writing</a> a letter to Biden requesting additional public health funds.
“We write to commend your administration’s recent actions to increase supplies of monkeypox vaccines and improve testing and laboratory capacity across the country,” the letter <a href="https://nadler.house.gov/uploadedfiles/monkeypox_clinic_funding.pdf">stated</a>. “We respectfully request additional funding to support health clinics as they work to implement this federal monkeypox response.”
Meanwhile, the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/days-after-biden-pinned-drug-costs-on-republicans-white-house-will-stop-paying-for-covid-treatments-report-says">plans</a> to stop paying for COVID vaccines and will begin shifting costs toward the private marketplace, according to a Thursday report from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-plans-for-end-of-covid-19-shot-treatment-coverage-11660838418?mod=hp_lead_pos6">The Wall Street Journal</a>. The Department of Health and Human Services will hold a planning session at the end of the month with pharmaceutical companies and state health departments to chart the transition — a move that could result in higher profits for Pfizer and Moderna, which, along with other pharmaceutical companies, have earned more than $79 billion in global sales from COVID treatments.

Biden Monkeypox Czar Says Vaccines Will Now Be Available At ‘Large LGBT Events’

White House To Let States Order Monkeypox Vaccines For LGBT Events

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cdc">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a> (CDC) has updated its guidance related to animals and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-monkeypox-outbreak">monkeypox</a> virus after a gay couple in France is suspected of transmitting the virus to their dog.
According to a paper <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)01487-8/fulltext">published</a> in The Lancet, two male partners, who were sleeping with other partners too, passed monkeypox to their Italian greyhound 12 days after they started showing symptoms.
The males, one aged 44 and the other 27, started seeing symptoms of the virus in a matter of days after sleeping with other partners.
&#8220;The men had presented with anal ulceration 6 days after sex with other partners,&#8221; the paper said. &#8220;In patient 1, anal ulceration was followed by a vesiculopustular rash on the face, ears, and legs; in patient 2, on the legs and back. In both cases, rash was associated with asthenia, headaches, and fever 4 days later.&#8221;
Nearly two weeks after the couple had symptoms, their dog tested positive for the virus, too.
&#8220;Twelve days after symptom onset, their male Italian greyhound, aged 4 years and with no previous medical disorders, presented with mucocutaneous lesions, including abdomen pustules and a thin anal ulceration,&#8221; The Lancet outlined. &#8220;The dog tested positive for monkeypox virus by use of a PCR protocol adapted from Li and colleagues that involved scraping skin lesions and swabbing the anus and oral cavity.&#8221;
&#8220;The men reported co-sleeping with their dog. They had been careful to prevent their dog from contact with other pets or humans from the onset of their own symptoms,&#8221; the paper added.
The paper&#8217;s authors concluded, &#8220;To the best of our knowledge, the kinetics of symptom onset in both patients and, subsequently, in their dog suggest human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus.&#8221;
&#8220;Given the dog&#8217;s skin and mucosal lesions as well as the positive monkeypox virus PCR results from anal and oral swabs, we hypothesise a real canine disease, not a simple carriage of the virus by close contact with humans or airborne transmission (or both),&#8221; the authors continued. &#8220;Our findings should prompt debate on the need to isolate pets from monkeypox virus-positive individuals. We call for further investigation on secondary transmissions via pets.&#8221;
The monkeypox virus has hit the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq">LGBTQ</a> community hardest across continents, spreading via close contact, including rashes and bodily fluids, according to the CDC.
Since The Lancet paper, the CDC has updated its guidance to include dogs as animals that can catch the virus, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monkeypox-suspected-case-human-to-dog-transmission-cdc-guidance/">reported</a>.
&#8220;People with monkeypox should avoid contact with animals, including pets, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/veterinarian/monkeypox-in-animals.html#table">domestic animals, and wildlife</a> to prevent spreading the virus,&#8221; the CDC <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/specific-settings/pets-in-homes.html">says</a>.
&#8220;If your pet is exposed to monkey pox: Do not surrender, euthanize, or abandon pets just because of a potential exposure or Monkeypox virus,&#8221; the agency said, adding, &#8220;Do not wipe or bathe your pet with chemical disinfectants, alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, or other products, such as hand sanitizer, counter-cleaning wipes, or other industrial or surface cleaners.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-monkeypox-outbreak">Here’s Everything You Need To Know About The Monkeypox Outbreak</a>

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