(Daily Beast) Five months after the world’s health agencies first sounded the alarm over a rare global outbreak of monkeypox, a sometimes fatal viral disease that’s normally endemic only in West and Central Africa, there’s finally some good news. The leading vaccines are working. Vulnerable populations—especially men who have sex with men—are getting jabbed at a healthy rate. Behaviors are changing. The rate of new cases is dropping fast, everywhere. Don’t celebrate quite yet, but it looks like the world is beating monkeypox. “We at least are down to a slow burn,” James Lawler, an infectious disease expert at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told The Daily Beast.
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