Applied DNA Sciences Inc (APDN)

[BenK]

"One death. There are more people murdered by gunshot in the city of Chicago each day. More people die from auto accidents each day. More people die each day from overdoses of fentanyl, other opioids, as well as good old heroin.
Which is the greater health concern?"

Your analogy only works up to a point. If a victim of a shooting in Chicago produced germs that might spread all over and cause other people to be shot; or every person who OD'd created germs that make others also OD, you'd be right.

But in those cases, each situation, tragic as it may be, is isolated. This is not true in the case of monkeypox. As health authorities have declared, there is a concern that infections could spread more widely, crossing into the general population, and they have declared it an emergency.

Are they overreacting? Maybe, because nobody wants to be blamed for underreacting. Either way, APDN is part of the response, and the worst-case scenario of broad infection can be averted.