A case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Massachusetts, health officials said Wednesday.
"This is an evolving situation where in the past two weeks we have seen a number of cases without a reported travel history to west africa which has been the travel that’s been most relevant. So right now we don’t have that travel history, we don’t know how the patient acquired this infection and that’s why we’re working closely with public health authorities," Biddinger said.
Massachusetts General Hospital, which is the designated regional emerging special pathogens treatment center for New England, said the patient was admitted there on May 12, and an"astute" clinician team thought to check for monkeypox, having heard news of recent cases in the U.K. Dr. Erica Shenoy, medical director for the Region 1 Emerging Special Pathogens Treatment Center, said the patient is"doing quite well," and that the strain of the virus has been identified as one out of West Africa, which is known to be less severe.
The monkeypox virus is related to the one that causes smallpox, but health officials noted that transmission between people is difficult -- it travels through bodily fluids, sores, items contaminated with fluids or sores or prolonged face-to-face contact. The cases in the U.K. were all in men who have sex with men, according to the Massachusetts Department of Health.
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