Will monkeypox become an 'established STD'? Why one infectious disease expert thinks so
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As U.S. cases rise, Nigeria's Dr. Dimie Ogoina — who discovered the re-emergence of monkeypox in 2017 in Nigeria — told Fox News the virus shows "signs of becoming an established STD."
The CDC told Fox News that while the virus can be sexually transmitted, it has not reached sexually transmitted infection (STI) status. "It shows us that the virus is evolving and adapting more to the human host," said Dr. Dimie Ogoina. "The best way to contain this risk is not through vaccination," said Dr. Robert Malone. "It is through contact tracing, abstinence and isolation until these people are no longer infectious." "Newly identified viruses, related disease and virus variants should be given names with the aim to avoid causing offense to any cultural, social, national, regional, professional or ethnic groups …" Lacey Christ is a producer with "Fox News @ Night."
The doctor said he had "never seen a monkeypox case in my life — I [had] only seen pictures," Ogoina told Fox News.