These are the first pediatric monkeypox cases in the U.S. One is an infant.
Two kids were diagnosed with monkeypox in the US this week.So far, no one has died from monkeypox in this outbreak, but the disease can be more dangerous for little people.
Jennifer McQuiston, the CDC's deputy director of the division of high consequence pathogens, told reporters on a phone call Friday afternoon that one of the kids diagnosed is"an infant" who lives in another country, but who was traveling through Washington, DC with their family when they tested positive for monkeypox.
But McQuiston did suggest that both of the children were close contacts of men who have sex with men. While there have been a few monkeypox cases diagnosed in women and children in the US, more than 99% of cases for which demographics are available in the US outbreak so far are among men who have sex with men.
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