One child is a toddler and the other is a baby.
While public health officials are still trying to determine how the children were infected, they believe it was due to household transmission.. Both are displaying symptoms but are in good health — and both are taking the antiviral drug tecovirimat for treatment.Up until this point, monkeypox has primarily been spread though sexual contact, and is somewhat isolated in the gay male population. But any close contact between two people can transmit the disease.
The CDC said that more general spread of the disease has already started elsewhere and is not surprising in the United States. "The social networks that we have as humans mean that we have contact with a lot of different people,” said Dr. Jennifer McQuiston, MD, deputy director of the CDC's Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology said in the statement.
The CDC stressed that the two children in this case were in households with men who had been exposed to the disease. “Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men's community," CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told theThere is a vaccine available for monkeypox called Jynneos. So far, the vaccine has been used on adults, but the government isAt the moment, though, those eligible for the vaccine are limited to people who know that they were exposed to the virus or who suspect they were exposed.
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