Why All the Fearmongering? We've Seen a Monkeypox Outbreak Before; You've Just Never Heard About It

Why All the Fearmongering? We've Seen a Monkeypox Outbreak Before; You've Just Never Heard About It

The United States had an outbreak in 2003 that was quickly contained without a mass inoculation campaign or fear propaganda. 70 people were infected and treated at home, and that was the end of it. We never heard about it again.

John Leake: "When [is] the public going to begin to realize we need to adopt a skeptical posture? It's not that we have to become just the most hard-bit cynics, but just 'hang on a minute.' The public, I think, needs to accept that they are under constant siege by propaganda."