People infected with monkeypox may have passed the virus to their pet dog, scientists recently reported.
Since the start of the monkeypox outbreak, cases of infection have been heavily concentrated among men who have sex with men, but this trend doesn't indicate that the virus exclusively spreads through sexual activity or that men who have sex with men are particularly prone to the disease – they are not.
Twelve days after the two men contracted monkeypox, their 4-year-old Italian greyhound developed multiple lesions on itsand mucous membranes, including large, pus-filled pimples on its abdomen and an ulceration on its anus. The dog then tested positive for monkeypox on a diagnostic test and a genetic analysis revealed that the virus that infected one of the men exactly matched the virus that infected the greyhound.
The patients said they let the dog sleep in their bed, but after their own monkeypox symptoms emerged, they'd been careful not to let the greyhound interact with any additional humans or other animals."To the best of our knowledge, the kinetics of symptom onset in both patients and, subsequently, in their dog suggest human-to-dog transmission of monkeypox virus," the researchers
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