While more infections are likely in the U.S., health officials said Monday there is no evidence that the virus is spreading widely in the country.
and there is no evidence the virus has changed to become more contagious, CDC officials said during a media briefing Monday.
While additional cases are anticipated, officials noted that there is no evidence that the virus is spreading widely in the country and added that the U.S. has a stockpile of vaccines available for close contacts of the infected patients. In all of the suspected and confirmed U.S. cases, the individuals had traveled out of the country, Capt. Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology division of the CDC, said during the briefing.
“It really requires a discrete encounter with the lesions themselves or the bedding or clothing that they share,” Dr. John Brooks, a medical epidemiologist in the CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, told NBC News.
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