Roughly 20 percent of Americans said they fear catching monkeypox, according to an Annenberg Public Policy Center survey released on Friday.
this week that 98 percent of cases detected since the outbreaks have been among men who have sex with men.
Regardless, when Americans were asked whether the CDC advises that men who have sex with men are at higher risk of infection, 66 percent said it is either unknown or false, while 33 percent said it is true.“The time to reduce susceptibility to misinformation about monkeypox is now,”“It is critically important that public health professionals offer anxious individuals accurate information about the ways in which this virus is transmitted and infection prevented.
A little over a quarter do not know that monkeypox spreads by close contact with an infected person, compared to 69 percent who do know. Sixty-six percent are also unsure or do not think a vaccine for monkeypox exists at all. Only 34 percent correctly know that a vaccine does exist.the “memories of false assurances and mixed messaging” about the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic factor into how the public is reacting to monkeypox.
“There is some suspicion scientists don’t know what they know, so that translates to higher worry,” Jamieson told the outlet.
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