The disease — characterized by a rash and lesions that can look like pimples, bumps or blisters — primarily spreads through prolonged skin-to-skin contact with those lesions
“Although we’re not seeing many deaths,” said UC San Francisco infectious diseases expert Dr. Peter Chin-Hong, monkeypox infections are “really causing a lot of suffering.” The pain can be excruciating and cause patients to have trouble sleeping, walking, eating, drinking or going to the bathroom. He said about 10% of monkeypox cases result in hospitalization, usually for severe pain or a super-infection .No.
Unlike the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, experts say, there’s no evidence that monkeypox can spread through shared airspace. Symptoms of monkeypox can last up to four weeks. The virus can be spread until lesions have healed completely and are covered by a new layer of skin, which can take weeks.“It does not, at this point, look like there’s risk from asymptomatic spread,” said Dr. Jay Gladstein, chief medical officer for APLA Health, an L.A. group focused on providing healthcare to the LGBTQ community.
That’s unclear. You are not fully vaccinated until two weeks after your second dose. And right now, L.A. County is prioritizingThe two-dose Jynneos vaccine has been tested for safety in humans, and it has proven effective in Petri dishes and in tests on animals. But we don’t have enough evidence yet to tell how effective it is at preventing monkeypox in humans.
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