Allergist-immunologist Vladimir Bolibok explained what symptoms indicate that a person with
According to a specialist, a patient with monkeypoxposes a threat to other people when a rash appears on the skin and mucous membranes. Through the defects that the rash leaves on the skin and mucous membranes, the virus begins to stand out.
At the same time, infectivity depends on household andsanitary conditions in which a person lives. The monkeypox virus loves dirt. “In unsanitary conditions, among the poor strata of the African population, from one patient, the whole family can become infected, up to several dozen people who live with him in the same dwelling. Among Europeans, earlier, monkeypox was practically not transmitted from person to person, ”the doctor emphasized.
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