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Monkey pox transmitted through the air? From the US: “The use of masks recommended”

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Monkey pox transmitted through the air?  From the US: “The use of masks recommended”

The American Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated the guidelines for travelers, also warning about the risk of transmission of monkeypox through the air (such as for Covid). The CDC said “wearing a face mask can help protect you from monkeypox as well.” However, airborne transmission has not yet been confirmed. And the indication was deleted a few hours later than publication. An official of the World Health Organization said that on airborne transmission “there is still a lot to be clarified”.

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Use: monkeypox masks

“The CDC removed the recommendation on the mask from the travel health warning because it was causing confusion,” was the clarification communicated by the agency, which however added that in countries where monkeypox is spreading, “i contact domestic and healthcare workers “should consider the use of masks, and the same precaution” should be applied to people who are in close contact with an infected person “. Meanwhile, infections around the world have reached one thousand since May.

WHO: risk of becoming endemic

“The risk of monkeypox establishing itself in non-endemic countries” for the infection “is real”, warns the World Health Organization, “particularly concerned” about the consequences that the disease can cause “in vulnerable groups including children and pregnant women “.

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This is the warning launched by the WHO director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during the periodic press briefing. However, he added the Dg, the affirmation of the Monkeypox virus in areas of the world that previously recorded only sporadic imported cases “is a preventable scenario”. In this sense, the United Nations Health Agency once again urges the affected countries to “make every effort to identify all cases and contacts, so as to control this outbreak and prevent the spread of the disease”.

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