can we fear a new health crisis?

Monkeypox has been detected in 200 people in the West. Only one person is affected in France. Can we experience a new health crisis with this virus? The journalist and doctor Damien Mascret wants to be reassuring. “Probably not, because we are not at all at the same level of transmission. With covid a patient could infect several people, whereas with monkeypox, the monkeypox virus, a patient rarely infects more than one person. a person and moreover often does not infect anyone.

Especially since it should not be confused with “historic” smallpox, the one which was eradicated in the 1970s and which killed one in three patients. “In reality, monkeypox is less dangerous, it is even less dangerous than covid since the mortality of this West African strain is perhaps around 1% in Africa. And perhaps even less with rapid treatment since during an epidemic in 2003, in the United States, there were 83 cases, but zero deaths”concludes Damien Mascret.