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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there have been 19 monkeypox-related deaths out of over 29,000 cases.
HHS extended the monkeypox emergency order in November.
There are several reasons the number of monkeypox cases is dropping, which include the vastly underappreciated natural immunity.
This strain of monkeypox was overwhelmingly spread between men who have sex with other men. While monkeypox is technically not a sexually transmitted infection—it can be spread through physical contact with rashes and sores of an infected person—this particular strain seemed stubbornly resistant to nonsexual spread. Los Angeles County data, for example, shows that only 43 of the 2,388 confirmed cases were in women. So, the number of demographic groups at risk of infection was much lower than the number at risk of catching COVID-19.
The second most obvious explanation: [Smallpox] Vaccinations became available—eventually. The CDC reports more than 1.1 million doses administered across the country over the summer. And the vaccines largely worked. They weren’t foolproof. A small number of vaccinated people nevertheless got monkeypox. But the CDC calculates that unvaccinated people who engaged in the same behavior as the vaccinated people were 14 times more likely to get monkeypox.
A less obvious explanation for the decline is simply that once people got monkeypox and recovered, their resistance to reinfection is likely very high. It’s not like COVID or other respiratory illnesses that can quickly adapt and mutate into different variants; it’s more like smallpox. Experts believe that this resistance will last for decades, if not the rest of a person’s life.
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