STAT August 11, 2024
As a global health investor and public health advocate, I understand the benefit of weight loss drugs and the rush to promote Ozempic, Wegovy, and other GLP-1 drugs. What I cannot wrap my head around is how, almost 45 years after the World Health Organization announced that smallpox had been eradicated, the world is once again dealing with smallpox vaccines and treatments, this time aimed at mpox.
Mpox is a disease spread between animals and people that stems from the same virus family that causes smallpox. Mpox may be even more difficult, if not impossible, to eradicate because it can linger in nonhuman animals. It causes painful rashes, blisters, bumps and flu-like symptoms that last up to four weeks. If...
Today's Sponsors
Today's Sponsor