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Amid the global outbreak of mpox, a US CDC report shows that, unlike Covid-19, the monkeypox virus (MPXV) does not easily spread through the air...
The CDCs latest Morbidity and Mortality weekly report included a study on 113 persons with mpox who travelled on 221 flights during 2021-22...
Primarily, it spreads via close physical or intimate contact with people infected with mpox lesions and less often via infectious respiratory secretions and fomites, the CDC said...
Mpox, currently spreading rapidly in Africa, infecting both adults and children, has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization (WHO)..
The situation is different during close contact however, where respiratory droplets could still play a role, said Dr. Rajeev Jayadevan, co-chairman of the Indian Medical Associations National Covid-19 Task Force, in a post on X.. Outside of Africa, mpoxs clade 1b has spread to Sweden and Thailand with one case each being reported so far..
