The World Health Organization (WHO) called Wednesday for people infected with monkeypox to avoid exposing animals to the virus following a first reported case of human-to-dog transmission.
A first case of human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox -- between two men and their Italian greyhound living together in Paris -- was reported last week in the medical journal The Lancet.
She also said "waste management is critical" to lowering the risk of contaminating rodents and other animals outside the household.When viruses jump the species barrier it often sparks concern that they could mutate dangerously.But she acknowledged that "as soon as the virus moves into a different setting in a different population, there is obviously a possibility that it will develop differently and mutate differently"."The more dangerous situation...
The disease was first discovered in humans in 1970, with the spread since then mainly limited to certain West and Central African countries.
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