The majority of cases, 75% or more, appear to have been contracted during international travel, officials said. Others have developed infection here through close contact with a known monkeypox case.
Public health officials have identified 45 cases of monkeypox across 15 states and the District of Columbia, up from 21 the week before, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a media briefing, while more than 1,300 cases have been detected globally in 31 countries.
"Monkeypox is not thought to linger in the air and is not typically transmitted during short periods of shared airspace," Walensky said."The virus is not thought to spread through interactions such as having a casual conversation, passing in the grocery store or touching the same items, such as a doorknob."
"Those diagnosed with monkeypox in this current outbreak described close, sustained physical contact with other people who were infected with the virus," Walensky said."This is consistent with what we've seen in prior outbreaks and what we know from decades of studying this virus and closely related viruses."
"Some have not even developed such flu-like symptoms. Further, in many the rash doesn't always extend beyond its initial site, or it extends to only a few sites versus around most areas of the body," she said. "This includes more than 100 million doses of ACAM2000 [smallpox vaccine] available for vaccination against monkeypox," O'Connell said during the briefing."The USA now holds about 72,000 doses of Jynneos [smallpox/monkeypox vaccine] in its immediate inventory, and we will soon receive an additional 300,000 doses from the manufacturer Bavarian Nordic over the course of the next several weeks.
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