Anyone can get infected with monkeypox through close intimate contact, an infectious disease expert warned Monday. A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week found that 98 p…
Anyone can get infected with monkeypox through close intimate contact, an infectious disease expert warned Monday.
“This is an infection that everybody or anyone is at risk, it just so happened at this point in time this outbreak has occurred in this group of population.” Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and then followed by skin lesions. The disease has a “very low fatality rate,” Solante added. Out of 22,000 recorded cases worldwide, there were around 7 deaths, he said.
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