Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said the tribe had contracted its first case of monkeypox in New Mexico’s McKinley County.
“We’re so interconnected now more than ever that we do have our first case,” Nez said. “Now we need your help, Navajo people, to continue to follow these protocols and to listen to these presentations of how to take better care of ourselves and our families and our communities.”
Capt. Brian Johnson, acting area deputy director for the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, noted that monkeypox is not a new virus and has existed in other parts of the world for years. Johnson said monkeypox doesn’t spread easily without close contact with someone who has it and the threat of monkeypox remains low in the United States, but said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has advised health care providers to be on the lookout for those with rashes consistent with monkeypox symptoms.Johnson said symptoms of monkeypox can take anywhere between five to 21 days to appear after exposure.
Dr. Laura Hammitt, an infectious disease physician with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, echoed Johnson’s points that monkeypox is less contagious than COVID-19 and is a much different virus in many other ways.
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