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Update (1055ET): The World Health Organization is convening a group of leading experts for an emergency meeting about the ongoing monkeypox outbreak, according to the Telegraph.

The meeting comes as 12 countries have reported recent cases, with the CDC confirming at least one in the United States.

"I'm sure that ultimately this will be the largest outbreak of monkeypox that we've had outside of the endemic areas in Africa," Daniel Bausch, infectious disease expert and president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene told Axios.

That said, Bausch doesn't think there's cause for concern just yet.

"I don't think there's a reason for panic. I don't think we're going to have tens of thousands of cases."

Prof Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA and a world renowned monkeypox expert, told the Telegraph that vaccinating close contacts of confirmed cases, also known as ring vaccination, is a good option for health officials.

She added that the public should not, at this stage, be too concerned.

"For your average person I would not be overly alarmed. If you have a rash, contact your health provider, a rash that is unusual or looks like monkeypox," she said.

"If you think you've been exposed to somebody who has monkeypox that has this kind of a rash I would I would identify yourself and talk to your healthcare provider."

So COVID was "not a major threat to the people of the US" (Fauci), Subprime is "contained" (Bernanke), and "I don't believe another financial crisis will occur in our lifetimes (Yellen)... but now we shouldn't be worried about Monkeypox...

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What in the world is going on? 

As Michael Snyder detailed earlier, in the past, we were told that monkeypox was not a major concern because it was so difficult to spread it from person to person. 

But now monkeypox seems to be spreading like wildfire. 

On May 7th, the very first case in the western world in 2022 was confirmed in the United Kingdom. 

Now here we are less than two weeks later and there are now dozens of confirmed and suspected cases in twelve different countries outside of Africa.