The good news is that all the people he interacted with in Kosovo — and the contacts of his contacts — may be vaccinated promptly. And the vaccine (closely related to the smallpox vaccine) is nearly 100% effective.
The tough news (as we said last night, most recently) is… this is going to be a fairly regular news item, country by country for the foreseeable future, into 2025. Here is Reuters reporting, on it all:
…Kosovo health authorities said on Friday they had detected the country’s first case of mpox, in a man who had recently returned from Africa.
Kosovo’s Institute of Public Health said a 30-year old Kosovo citizen was admitted to hospital on Dec. 24 after returning from a west African country. It did not name the country.
“His symptoms were fever, chills, and skin changes in face and hands,” the institute said in a statement, adding that the patient appeared stable….
Even so, we plan to meet the new year with hope, and a sense of purpose — in blunting the darker, more hateful and malign forces now taking shape in our nation — and the wider world. Onward.
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