Public health policy on infectious diseases is practically a joke. You think we would have learnt after covid. Or maybe there's nothing we can realistically do?

I feel like we are just going to continue to have these sorts of issues due to fast global travel. We're seeing it with covid, chikungunya, zika, west Nile, etc, and now moneypox. We've just barely been able to avoid it on SARS, MERS, and ebola. But our overall track record is pretty shitty. I wouldn't be surprised is TB comes back with a vengeance in the next couple decades, and STDs are still pretty rampant.

This is such a yikes quote: "So while community spread in the West is new this year, for years the rich world ignored a growing public health problem in Nigeria in a way that eventually led to spillover."

I'm currently living in NYC so this is something I've had my eye on the past month or two, but I haven't seen the mainstream media discuss the fact that the outbreak has been ongoing for years in other parts of the world. If only we had learned from our mistakes with Covid and actually took budding viral spreads seriously. :/