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Is monkeypox virus similar to Covid-19? Is it worrying?
'COVID A SNAKE BITE, MONKEYPOX A BED BUG' Faheem Younos, Chief of Infectious Diseases at the University of Maryland, said, "Monkeypox will NOT turn into a Covid-like pandemic." Because, he said, its "strain isn't deadly", "virus isn't airborne", "outbreak isn't global", "outbreak is affecting MSM", "disease has a treatment+vaccine", and "is not Covid". He also said that the risk of lockdowns due to rising monkeypox cases is zero per cent. The doctor also said that "If Covid is like a snake bite, monkeypox is like bed bugs.