Cases of the viral disease monkeypox in the United States have been identified for the first time in children — a toddler in California and an infant who is not a US resident, health authorities said on Friday.
People wait in line to recieve a vaccine against monkeypox before the opening of a new mass vaccination site at the Bushwick Education Campus in Brooklyn on July 17, 2022, in New York City. Two cases of monkeypox infection in the US have been detected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Kena Betancur/ AFP
Monkeypox, which causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions, has been spreading largely in men who have sex with men in the recent outbreak, outside the west and central Africa countries where it is endemic. The disease spreads chiefly through close contact. She said 99% of the 2,891 monkeypox cases confirmed in the United States involve men who have sex with men, but there have been a handful of women and transgender men who have become infected.
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