SCIENTISTS fear Americans are not being vigilant about the current uptick in Monkeypox cases. A study conducted in July revealed that many American citizens have forgotten about the terrible Mpox disease which saw a dramatic rise two years ago. According to a study, which was conducted by Annenberg Science and Public Health, only five percent of Americans are worried about contracting Mpox in the next three months.
This number is way down from the 21 percent surveyed in 2022 when the disease was making its way across the US in July and August, reports Science Daily . It was also revealed that fewer than 17 percent knew that mpox was less contagious than covid-19 which is down from the previously surveyed 41 percent. Only a third of participants revealed that they knew that gay men were more likely to contract the disease as opposed to the 63 percent surveyed in 2022.
Read More On mpox The study also shows that less than half of the respondents knew that there was already a vaccine in place to help cure the disease. "The speed with which the public learned needed information about Mpox in the summer of 2022 was a tribute to effective communication by the public health community," Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center, told the outlet. "That same expertise should now be deployed to ensure that those at risk remember mpox's symptoms, modes of transmission, and the protective power of vaccination.
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