Monkeypox Spreads Through Air During Sustained Face-to-face Contact

Monkeypox can extend through the air but only through 'sustained' face-to-face contact with an infected person.

Monkeypox can extend through the air but only through ’sustained’ face-to-face contact with an infected person, stated CDC.

In a briefing on Friday, CDC chief Rochelle Walensky said monkeypox was being passed on through physical contact with symptomatic patients and by touching their clothing and bedding, reports the Daily Mail.

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‘Monkeypox is not spread through casual conversations, passing others in a grocery store, or touching things like door knobs.’

But attempting to clear up whether face masks are needed to avoid catching the rash-causing virus, the epidemiologist explained the rash-causing virus would not ’linger in the air’ like Covid.

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"All cases we have seen to date in this outbreak have been related to direct contact."

During the conference, health officials also called on Americans with any sexually transmitted infection, including syphilis, gonorrhea, and chlamydia, to get tested for monkeypox.

They warned many patients were experiencing rashes and sores on the genitals and anus that looked like STIs.

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Introduction:

Monkeypox is a rare viral infection caused by the monkeypox virus, which belongs to the same family of smallpox. It typically occurs in central and western Africa. Sometimes, small clusters or isolated infections are diagnosed in other countries.

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Monkeypox does not spread because of monkeys. The name originates from the initial discovery of the virus in monkeys in a Danish laboratory in 1958. There are two forms of monkeypox, a milder west African strain and a more severe central African, or Congo strain. The current outbreak involves the west African strain, although not all countries have looked into this.

Anyone can spread monkeypox through contact with body fluids, monkeypox sores, or shared items (such as clothing and bedding) that have been contaminated with fluids or sores of a person infected with monkeypox.

Several cases of co-infection with monkeypox and a sexually transmitted disease have also been recorded.

Walensky stressed that the virus was only transmitted through the air via large droplets expelled from infected people that quickly fell to the ground.

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