The virus does not spread through the air. You need to be in close physical contact with someone to get it.
“It’s not sexually transmitted necessarily. It can be passed through intimate contact or close physical contact with someone with the pustules or the rash from monkeypox,” said Nigel Turner, the Communicable Disease Control division director with Tacoma-Pierce County Public Health.
But with summer in full swing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people with plans like going to concerts or clubs. On its website,a party “where there is minimal clothing and where there is direct, personal, often skin-to-skin contact has some risk.” “Avoid any rash you see on others,” the CDC advises. Events where people are “fully clothed and unlikely to share skin-to-skin contact are safer,” the CDC says.
“It kind of makes you think twice about going to really crowded places like bars, concerts, ... or rubbing up against people,” Graupensperger said.
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