More on monkeypox—does the story make sense?

PART ONE: DIAGNOSIS

This is a follow-up to my Tuesday podcast.

We’re told that 100 cases broke out in a dozen countries. How do the experts know that? How did they recognize and decide these were cases of monkeypox?

Here are warning signs we’re told to look for, signs that could indicate monkeypox: fever, headache, muscle ache, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion.

Really? Those symptoms could describe hundreds of millions of cases of simple flu-like illness or even the common cold. So obviously, the symptoms weren’t telltale indications that these 100 specific people in a dozen countries had monkeypox—or that the 100 people should be looked at as possible cases.

That leaves one other sign: lesions on the body.