Over 200 people being monitored for monkeypox in Massachusetts

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The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a travel alert for the spread of monkeypox.

All the suspected cases in the US have been men who had a relevant travel history, the briefing heard.While the US patient was in isolation in Massachusetts General Hospital, health officials there “have been tracking over 200 contacts,” Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the CDC’s division of high consequence pathogens and pathology, told the briefing.

“Those are people who’ve had contacts with a known monkeypox patient, health care workers, very close personal contacts, and those in particular who might be at high risk for severe disease.”

 

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