PANDEMIC & EMERGING VIRUSES

information and news by the doctor in partnership with the CDC and LADPH
(the center for disease control and the department of public health of los angeles county).

COVID-19

The world has been reeling from the effects and after-effects of COVID. At one point, we were getting ready to live in a post-COVID era but it does not look likely. New variants are constantly emerging, vaccines can’t keep up with the changing mutations and seemingly, the world has started to forget they are living among one of the worst existential threats humanity has faced in over a century. Find out more on our COVID page.

Monkeypox

Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox much like chicken are not related to monkeys. Leave the rumors and misinformation behind and learn real facts about this emerging virus.