likely already has the same number of infections as the UK - which is currently the world's monkeypox hotspot.īut she said the arduous process of checking swabs - which must be sent to one of 74 local labs and then the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) for confirmation - was leading to too few being done and many being missed.
America may already have as many as 300 cases of monkeypox - more than nine times the official tally of 31 - but has missed hundreds due to a lack of testing, an expert warned Monday.ĭr Boghuma Titanji, an infectious diseases expert at Emory University in Georgia, claimed the U.S.