An unusual rash of monkeypox cases have been reported across at least a dozen European and North American countries this month, and disease experts are urgently investigating the spread.
Many of the cases confirmed so far in this outbreak have been diagnosed in men who identify as gay, bisexual, or as men who have sex with men. But that doesn't mean that monkeypox is a gay disease . Instead, the spread of this disease among gay men may have a lot more to do with where these pox areTypically, monkeypox rashes tend to break out on the face, palms of the hands, and bottoms of the feet.
Health experts know that the pus and scabs people get when they have monkeypox are super contagious. Whether they're on the hands, the feet, or the groin, if someone else touches them, it's not very hard to get infected. "Those legions are chock full of a ton of virus, and that virus is extraordinarily stable — the virus is a double-stranded DNA virus, which by nature, it's really hearty," the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Andrea McCollum, a poxvirus expert, told Insider.
"Lesions are infectious in all stages, including the scab stage, until they separate and there's a fresh layer of skin." Fortunately, the virus can be cleaned off surfaces with bleach, and disinfected out of clothes and bedsheets too. And, while people are waiting for their scabs to fall off, covering them up with a
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