Does monkeypox spread easily through the air, on surfaces or from food? False reports about the virus are causing high levels of anxiety.
infect a person are two different things, experts stress.“We know that it’s possible for monkeypox to spread via contaminated surfaces,” said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a leading monkeypox expert. This includes, in particular, bedding, sheets, towels and unwashed clothing that has come into contact with infected lesions.
“Is that going to be a common source of transmission?” Rimoin said. “Probably not, but it’s certainly possible.”Two recent peer-reviewed studies provide important insights into how likely such transmission routes really are., documented a pool of 528 global cases. The study estimated that 95% of the cases stemmed from sexual close contact between men. Just 0.8% were likely due to nonsexual close contact and 0.6% were due to household contact.
“We know that the virus exists on surfaces, and we know that it can be transmitted to household contacts, but that these are very limited chains of transmission,” said Dr. Chloe Orkin, an infectious disease expert at Queen Mary University of London and the paper’s lead author. The prospect of monkeypox “exploding in other communities through contact with infected surfaces,” Orkin added, “is very unlikely, because the clear route of transmission is through sexual contact.”of 181 monkeypox cases in Spain, swabs of lesions contained approximately 1,000 times greater level of virus than swabs taken from the mouth and throat of infected people.
While this finding “cannot directly respond to the question of the likelihood of aerosol transmission” of monkeypox, “what we can say is that skin lesions are much more infectious compared with respiratory droplets,” joint senior co-author, Dr. Oriol Mitjà, an associate professor in infectious disease at the University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, in Badalona, Spain, said in an email.
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