Former FDA commissioner says the window to control the spread of the monkeypox outbreak 'probably has closed'

Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, said on Sunday that the US probably missed the ball on the monkeypox outbreak.

Gottlieb was on CBS' "Face the Nation." We need to continue to deal with this because we are at the verge of it becoming an endemic virus.

"I think the window for getting control of this and containing it has closed, and if it hasn't closed, it's definitely starting to close," he said.

According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there are more than 1800 confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States. There are at least one confirmed case in every single US state.

The World Health Organization says that some people experience atypical symptoms, such as anal pain and bleeding, that are not related to the disease.

Men who have sex with men are more likely to get monkeypox, but it can be passed on to anyone who is close to them. Those who may have been exposed to monkeypox should avoid physical contact.

The Department of Health and Human Services will deploy close to 300,000 monkeypox vaccines to try to slow the spread of the disease.

Gottlieb said in a CBS interview that the US made a lot of the same mistakes.

"This is a slower moving virus, which is why we could have gotten control of this if we had been more aggressive up front," he stated.

This is embedded in the community. It's not going to explode, because it's harder for this virus to spread, but you'll have this as a fact of life, maybe spreading as a sexually transmitted disease.

Hannah gotuhen contributed to the report.