While it is still too early to talk about a monkeypox epidemic, despite the increase in reported cases recently, the emergence of the phenomenon should act as an alert, according to Antoine Flahault, public health professor and director of the Institute of Global Health at the University of Geneva. A: We’re seeing the emergence of an unusual phenomenon, but it’s still difficult to know whether it will explode into an epidemic, or whether its spread will be more contained. In recent days, the number of cases has doubled every three or four days, which could signal the exponential growth of an e…