Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Division of High Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, said in a news briefing Monday. “It’s not a situation where if you’re passing someone in the grocery store, they’re going to be at risk for monkeypox,” the CDC’s Capt. The CDC said it primarily spreads through close contact with a person with an active rash or respiratory droplets from someone with lesions in the mouth. It remains unclear how people in those clusters were exposed to the virus, but the CDC said cases include people who self-identify as men who have sex with men. The CDC has been tracking clusters of monkeypox reported this month in European countries that seldom see the disease, and had said Monday that there were four other suspected cases nationally, in New York, Florida and Utah. resident tested positive for monkeypox May 18 after returning to the U.S.
The CDC and Massachusetts Department of Public Health last week announced that a U.S. “The risk of monkeypox in the general population is very low,” California State Epidemiologist Dr. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the patient is isolating, and that they are notifying people the person was in close contact with. State officials who are investigating the case along with Sacramento County health authorities and the U.S. The California Department of Public Health said Tuesday it is investigating the state’s first suspected case of monkeypox, a milder cousin of the notorious smallpox, in a Sacramento County resident who recently traveled abroad, adding to the number of recent infections that has put world medical authorities on alert.