Children at a day care facility in Illinois are being screened for monkeypox and have the option to receive the monkeypox vaccine after an employee tested positive for the virus, state officials said.
, which spreads through close contact — in particular, skin-to-skin or respiratory droplets, or contact with bodily fluids or contaminated materials, such as clothing, towels and bedding. It can cause a rash, painful sores and blisters.that the outbreak is being driven by sex between men, “the CDC has emphasized that monkeypox can affect anyone who has close contact with people who have monkeypox, and this includes children,” CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund told TODAY in an email last week.
“The No. 1 thing parents can do to protect their children is to make sure they themselves do not get monkeypox,” Dr. Buddy Creech, a pediatric infectious disease physician at Vanderbilt Medical Center, said.Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the center for vaccine development at Texas Children’s Hospital, told TODAY last week he's not currently worried about transmission in schools.
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