An adult working in an Illinois daycare center and caring for a home healthcare client has tested positive for monkeypox, health officials report.
August 09, 2022An adult working at a daycare center in Rantoul, an agricultural community about 15 miles north of Urbana-Champaign, has tested positive for virus , Illinois health officials report. The patient also had one home healthcare client.
"The good news here is that there's a vaccine for MPV, and we are working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the federal government to secure vaccine for impacted individuals," Sameer Vohra, MD, JD, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, said during the briefing."We have already begun administering doses throughout the state."
Julie A. Pryde, MSW, LSW, MPH, administrator for the CUPHD, noted in the briefing that the district had learned about the case the day before and that it's the third monkeypox case in Champaign county. "Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection. It's a virus, and viruses do not discriminate who they infect," she added. Monkeypox, an orthopoxvirus, is rare but potentially serious.
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