Yes, there are more infectious diseases popping up - experts say there are 7 clear reasons why | Businessinsider

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2022 has been a banner year for global infectious disease spread — and it's not just Covid.

and vaccine hesitancy, and it was inevitable that an uptick in vaccine-preventable disease spread would happen once lockdowns, social distancing, and masking measures eased.

"All these years, Africans had monkeypox, nobody did a thing, nobody gave them vaccines," Pai said."Now, suddenly, all the rich nations are going after — and getting — monkeypox vaccinations?" Eventually, he said,"we pay the price" for such"archaic,""parochial," and short-sighted disease management. "If monkeypox had been handled better in Africa, it wouldn't have spread around the world. If Covid had been handled better in low and middle income countries, new variants would not have emerged. If Ebola had been contained in West Africa, even before it spread, then it wouldn't have arrived in the US."The ProMED map, a tool of infectious diseases experts around the globe, is an open-access, a-political tool for tracking disease spread.

 

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