'The worrisome part isn’t the mortality but more so the length of time that people are contagious and that they’re contagious even before the rash appears,' says Bernard Camins, the medical director for infection prevention at the Mount Sinai Health System
that the state will receive 110,000 additional doses in the coming weeks, with 80,000 of those doses directed to New York City specifically.While monkeypox is increasingly associated with large, pus-filled lesions as pictured in news stories, there are a number of other symptoms associated with this virus.
Monkeypox rash tends to appear first on the face or torso and “start as flat reddish areas that then become raised and then become fluid filled,” says Ratner. In some cases, these lesions can beMonkeypox can spread through large respiratory droplets, which “travel shorter distances than aerosols do and don’t hang out in the air as much as aerosols do,” says Ratner. The monkeypox virus can also be spread through contact with lesions, especially if there is broken skin.
Though concern surrounding monkeypox is not unreasonable, it’s likely amplified because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which Camins emphasizes is a very different virus. “Monkeypox is certainly not as contagious as smallpox, chicken pox, or COVID for that matter,” he says. “There is a respiratory component, but these are large droplets, which means that wearing a mask can protect you.”On the whole, monkeypox tends to be a mild disease, says Ratner.
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