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Missouri Reporting What Appears to be State's First Case of Monkeypox
Aired June 16, 2003 - 09:15 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Officials in Missouri are reporting what appears to be that state's first case of Monkeypox, adding to the growing concern about the spread of that virus.
Our medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta here with more on a report about that and also a report about diabetes.
Which one should we do first?
Diabetes?
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Let's do the diabetes.
KAGAN: OK, sure.
GUPTA: You know, this is a pretty interesting report. We've obviously talked a lot about overweight and obesity. Sixty percent of the nation being overweight, we've certainly heard those numbers often. Well, now what we're starting to see are some of the consequences of that. A shocking report, as you mentioned -- and it is shocking. It comes out of a very scientific medical organization, talking about the fact that of kids born in the year 2000, a third of them will develop diabetes over their lifetime.
Take a look at some of the numbers now. Seventeen million Americans currently have diabetes. Those numbers certainly expected to increase now as a consequence of overweight and obesity.
The largest, the fastest growing group, I should say, in the diabetic population, 53 percent, Hispanic females. More often than not, they're going to develop diabetes at the rate things are going right now.
KAGAN: And the thing that's so frustrating about that is that it doesn't have to happen. It can be controlled.
GUPTA: Yes, and I thought one of the medical researchers put it interestingly. Certainly there's a lot of different consequences of diabetes you can see there. There's also a lot of different causes of it, including genetics. But as one of the scientific researchers say, genetics may load the cannon, but it's lifestyle that actually pulls the trigger, an important point. Certainly genetics do play a large role in this. But, yes, it's our nation being so overweight and obese right now that's probably adding to this problem.
KAGAN: Very clever on that. Now, to prairie dogs and Monkeypox.
GUPTA: Yes.
KAGAN: Just when you thought you couldn't hear enough, it's actually spreading.
GUPTA: Did you think you couldn't hear enough?
KAGAN: I was going to think on that.
GUPTA: Well, Monkeypox certainly, you know, it's a buzz word right now, and the medical community talking a lot about it. Let's do a quick review of the numbers again. Looking at the states that are affected by Monkeypox, you can see there, that's the countdown. That totals 82 cases now, the latest case being in Missouri.
This Monkeypox is probably a consequence of super travel and exotic animals. Certainly we've talked a lot about the prairie dogs. But the prairie dogs probably got this Monkeypox from a Gambian rat with which it was, I guess, stored, and during the transport process and it probably came from Ghana, is where they're saying, a rain forest in Africa, and probably from monkeys before that, which is where it gets its name.
But certainly this is a, this is a disease that has certainly caught the imagination of a lot of people. Some people have gotten quite sick from it. A woman, I should say a girl, a 10-year-old girl in Indiana may have developed encephalitis as a result of Monkeypox. But no one has died from this disease as of yet.
KAGAN: All right, just keeping our eye on it.
GUPTA: That's right, we'll continue to do that.
KAGAN: Sanjay, thank you for that.
GUPTA: All right.
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Aired June 16, 2003 - 09:15 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Officials in Missouri are reporting what appears to be that state's first case of Monkeypox, adding to the growing concern about the spread of that virus.
Our medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta here with more on a report about that and also a report about diabetes.
Which one should we do first?
Diabetes?
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Let's do the diabetes.
KAGAN: OK, sure.
GUPTA: You know, this is a pretty interesting report. We've obviously talked a lot about overweight and obesity. Sixty percent of the nation being overweight, we've certainly heard those numbers often. Well, now what we're starting to see are some of the consequences of that. A shocking report, as you mentioned -- and it is shocking. It comes out of a very scientific medical organization, talking about the fact that of kids born in the year 2000, a third of them will develop diabetes over their lifetime.
Take a look at some of the numbers now. Seventeen million Americans currently have diabetes. Those numbers certainly expected to increase now as a consequence of overweight and obesity.
The largest, the fastest growing group, I should say, in the diabetic population, 53 percent, Hispanic females. More often than not, they're going to develop diabetes at the rate things are going right now.
KAGAN: And the thing that's so frustrating about that is that it doesn't have to happen. It can be controlled.
GUPTA: Yes, and I thought one of the medical researchers put it interestingly. Certainly there's a lot of different consequences of diabetes you can see there. There's also a lot of different causes of it, including genetics. But as one of the scientific researchers say, genetics may load the cannon, but it's lifestyle that actually pulls the trigger, an important point. Certainly genetics do play a large role in this. But, yes, it's our nation being so overweight and obese right now that's probably adding to this problem.
KAGAN: Very clever on that. Now, to prairie dogs and Monkeypox.
GUPTA: Yes.
KAGAN: Just when you thought you couldn't hear enough, it's actually spreading.
GUPTA: Did you think you couldn't hear enough?
KAGAN: I was going to think on that.
GUPTA: Well, Monkeypox certainly, you know, it's a buzz word right now, and the medical community talking a lot about it. Let's do a quick review of the numbers again. Looking at the states that are affected by Monkeypox, you can see there, that's the countdown. That totals 82 cases now, the latest case being in Missouri.
This Monkeypox is probably a consequence of super travel and exotic animals. Certainly we've talked a lot about the prairie dogs. But the prairie dogs probably got this Monkeypox from a Gambian rat with which it was, I guess, stored, and during the transport process and it probably came from Ghana, is where they're saying, a rain forest in Africa, and probably from monkeys before that, which is where it gets its name.
But certainly this is a, this is a disease that has certainly caught the imagination of a lot of people. Some people have gotten quite sick from it. A woman, I should say a girl, a 10-year-old girl in Indiana may have developed encephalitis as a result of Monkeypox. But no one has died from this disease as of yet.
KAGAN: All right, just keeping our eye on it.
GUPTA: That's right, we'll continue to do that.
KAGAN: Sanjay, thank you for that.
GUPTA: All right.
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