A string of new cases in Europe and the U.S. is “the most important outbreak in the history of monkeypox in the Western Hemisphere,” one expert said.
Person-to-person transmission can occur through the exchange of large respiratory droplets during prolonged face-to-face contact. People can also get exposed through direct contact with bodily fluids, the lesions that form during an infection, or contaminated items like clothing or bedding.
She added that the overrepresentation of this group may simply be a product of skin-to-skin contact within a tight-knit community. Symptoms can develop anywhere from five to 21 days after someone is infected. Most people recover after two to four weeks. So far, Rimoin said, the recent infections “appear to be reasonably mild cases that have been found through clinics, not because people are presenting severely ill to the emergency room.”Rimoin said it makes sense that new cases of monkeypox continue to crop up, since there’s less immunity to poxviruses than there was before 1980, when people still received smallpox vaccines.
Doctors who identify a suspected monkeypox case should report it to the CDC, Rao said, since “any potential treatments that might be provided to the patient are really only available through consultation with public health authorities.”
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