Washington, July 17 (Representative) As the US continues to report monkeypox cases, top health official Dr Anthony Fauci said that the outbreak needs to be handled in more rigorous manner. CNN quoted Fauci as saying: “This is something we definitely need to take seriously. We don’t know the scope and the potential of it yet, but we have to act like it will have the capability of spreading much more widely than it’s spreading right now. “Most of the US has reported monkeypox cases, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the cases reported include New York, California, Illinois and Florida.
As of Friday, the country confirmed at least 1,814 cases.Fauci, who is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, said, “Whenever you have the emergence of something like this, you are always probably looking at what might be — might be, we don’t know — the tip of the iceberg, so that’s the reason why we’ve got to get the testing out there in a much, much more vigorous way. “Because you want to protect the people at risk, not only the people who might have had an exposure that they know of, but also people, by the virtue of the fact that they’re in a risk situation, that they need to get vaccinated,” he added. The US has more than tripled its monkeypox vaccine doses since last week, CNN reported US Department of Health and Human Services.