It’s actually a sign that Americans are remaining vigilant, and health care providers and public health workers are doing their job,” said Dr. “We shouldn’t be surprised to see more cases reported in the US in the upcoming days. Officials expect more cases to be diagnosed as the CDC has urged doctors and Americans to be on the lookout for symptoms. Some of the nine cases have a recent history of international travel to areas with active monkeypox outbreaks, she said, but others do not. The CDC is working to learn more about the outbreak: Samples from the nine identified cases were sent to the agency for additional confirmatory testing and genomic investigation, Walensky noted, and there are efforts to learn how each person contracted the virus. Walensky implored Americans “to approach this outbreak without stigma and without discrimination.” ‘We shouldn’t be surprised to see more cases’
They’re not contained within social networks, and the risk of exposure is not limited to any one particular group,” she warned. “While some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right now, infectious diseases do not care about state or international borders. “This is a community that has the strength and has demonstrated the ability to address challenges to their health by focusing on compassion and science,” she said in an apparent reference to the AIDS epidemic. Walensky called for an approach “guided by science, not by stigma.”
