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Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture warned people not to release their pet prairie dogs into the wild. The agency also told state humane societies to isolate any prairie dogs people bring in.

I hope this warning isn't too late. It wouldn't take much for the monkeypox to find it's way into local populations of rodents and other animal life. THAT consequence has some implications for monkeypox becoming very prevalent in the US.

Well, I'm just going to throw this out for comment. Would this really be so terrible? Monkeypoxy kills 10% of the Congalese children who get it, and abot 1% of the Congalese adults who get it. I've read, and I don't know, that there is some thought that the fatality rate will be MUCH lower in the U.S. because we have medicine (seems the villages in the Congo don't have any type of medical care), we are better fed, and generally healthier. I've also read that Monkeypox exposes will give immunity to Smallpox. In a generaltion or two, we could end up with with a population that is sufficiently immune to the spread of Smallpox. I'm just throwing this out. I'm also assuming that in the U.S. there the death rate from Monkeypox will be about the same as Chickenpox (almost none).