The children are described as being in good health and receiving treatment.
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.NEW YORK — Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.
The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission.Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don’t see the disease. In the U.S.
While the virus has mostly been spreading among men who have sex with men, “I don’t think its surprising that we are occasionally going to see cases” outside that social network, the CDC’s Jennifer McQuiston told reporters Friday. “People don’t crawl on each other’s beds unless they are living in the same house or family,” he said.This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.
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