“What we have seen in the United Kingdom, in Spain, and in Europe has been novel, and that gives us cause for concern.
'I would emphasize that historically, this has been a rare disease with very rare transmission around the world,” said Paul Biddinger, MD, director of the Center for Disaster Medicine at Massachusetts General, according to CBS News. The man has been hospitalized since May 12, and the diagnosis took 6 days to make because the disease is so rare, CBS News reported. Contact tracing has started, and there’s no threat to the general public, the department said in a news release. He is being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and is in good condition. monkeypox case of the year, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health on Wednesday said a case of the rare skin disease had been detected in a man.
