Sharing some clinical and epidemiological perspective on #monkeypox gained from working with @arimoin, @jlloydsmith, and @UCSF_ID. First, if you happen to develop fever, malaise and a rash with little blisters then it’s important to know that the chances you have monkeypox are tiny, despite these being the associated symptoms. However, you should still seek medical attention because some other virus may be the culprit (e.g. chickenpox, Zoster, HSV). Second, the mortality of monkeypox in some low-resources areas of Africa