The World Health Organisation has declared the mpox outbreak a global health emergency, with an infectious diseases expert telling Sky News it is "very likely" someone in the UK already has the new variant of the viral disease.
Incorrect. Not only can mpox be spread through the air via respiratory droplets, skin contact with contaminated surfaces is also a transmission vector.
The fatality rate is also more than twice that of Covid.
Anyone can get mpox. It spreads from contact with infected:
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materials, such as contaminated sheets, clothes or needles […]
Person-to-person transmission of mpox can occur through direct contact with infectious skin or other lesions such as in the mouth or on genitals; this includes contact which is
face-to-face (talking or breathing) […]
respiratory droplets or short-range aerosols from prolonged close contact
The WHO said COVID wasn’t airborne and only spread through contact or cough droplets until 2023 when they changed their mind even though research had put significant doubts in this by 2021.
They WHO isn’t usually the most speedy at getting the details right. I’d look for literature reviews.
Incorrect. Not only can mpox be spread through the air via respiratory droplets, skin contact with contaminated surfaces is also a transmission vector.
The fatality rate is also more than twice that of Covid.
The WHO does not agree either you.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox
Did you read the thing you’re linking to?
It says:
The link is supplemental to what is already mentioned in the article
The article says:
Yes. That agrees with what I said in my original comment.
The WHO said COVID wasn’t airborne and only spread through contact or cough droplets until 2023 when they changed their mind even though research had put significant doubts in this by 2021.
They WHO isn’t usually the most speedy at getting the details right. I’d look for literature reviews.
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