ansmitted through direct physical contact with sores or contaminated materials from a patient.
The World Health Organisation and several experts have said that although"short-range" airborne transmission of monkeypox appears to be uncommon, it is possible and warrants precautions. Britain also includes monkeypox on its list of"high-consequence infectious diseases" that can spread through the air.
The CDC said on Thursday that monkeypox"is not known to linger in the air and is not transmitted during short periods of shared airspace." The agency is right to reassure the public that the outbreak is not a threat to most people because monkeypox is not nearly as contagious as the coronavirus, said Dr Donald Milton, an expert on airborne virus transmission at the University of Maryland.
The droplets may be heavy and quickly fall onto objects or people, or they may be small and light, lingering in the air for long periods and distances. The CDC's assessment hinges in part on whether the virus is present only in large droplets or also in the very small ones, called aerosols.A similar debate unfolded at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, when the agency and the WHO focused on large droplets as the main route of transmission.
Patients in the current outbreak seem to have become infected through close, sustained contact, CDC officials said on Friday. But this can be difficult to determine.
straits_times The same covid “experts” that said the vaccine was safe and effective but you need 4 jabs in less than 2 years? 😂
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