ISSA's Global Risk Advisory Council has produced a short video on the virus de jour, Monkeypox. Take a look.
While cases are still quite low, and it seems to be confined to a quite narrow segment of the population (I shan't elaborate), it is spreading rapidly (some 7500 lab confirmed cases in the US, from a May 18 initial case), so we ought to begin preparations. So it could hit us in a major way.
Compared to Covid, transmission seems by physical contact, rather than airborne; thus concentration on surfaces ("touchpoints") rather than masks and air circulation, it the thing.
Fortunately, we and much of our commercial janitorial industry upgraded touchpoint sanitation early in the Covid epidemic; we mostly need to reinforce the previous standards and behavior. Over here at CBN, we've gotten rolling on it.
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