Monkeypox: What public health experts want you to know.
was detected in the United States in mid-May, the outbreak has led to more than 10,300 reported cases across the country as of Wednesday.public health emergencyMany questions have emerged over the last 2 1/2 months including how the disease spreads, how it's treated and which vaccines can prevent infection.
It can also spread through prolonged contact with objects or fabrics -- including clothes, bedsheets and towels -- touched or used by someone with monkeypox, but this brings a lower risk.Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Dr. Jessica Justman, an associate professor of medicine in epidemiology at Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, emphasized this could change."I think we all learned with COVID that things can change, particularly in public health when we are dealing with an outbreak and we just need to all be prepared for the information to change and the public health messaging to change as we gain more information," Justman told ABC News. "And COVID was a brand new virus.
Finally, the lesions will scab over and eventually fall off. People may be left with scars or skin discoloration, but health officials say a person is no longer infectious once the scabs are gone and a fresh layer of skin has formed.Other symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, chills, muscle aches, backache and swollen lymph nodes.
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