The World Health Organisation has declared the mpox outbreak a global health emergency, with an infectious diseases expert telling Sky News it is "very likely" someone in the UK already has the new variant of the viral disease.
    • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
      191·
      3 months ago

      Did you read the thing you’re linking to?

      It says:

      Anyone can get mpox. It spreads from contact with infected: […]

      • materials, such as contaminated sheets, clothes or needles […]

      Person-to-person transmission of mpox can occur through direct contact with infectious skin or other lesions such as in the mouth or on genitals; this includes contact which is

      • face-to-face (talking or breathing) […]
      • respiratory droplets or short-range aerosols from prolonged close contact
      • gmtom@lemmy.world
        113·
        3 months ago

        The link is supplemental to what is already mentioned in the article

        • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
          122·
          3 months ago

          The article says:

          Infection via methods such as reusing towels and other skin-to-skin contact is possible but rare, he added.

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      54·
      3 months ago

      The WHO said COVID wasn’t airborne and only spread through contact or cough droplets until 2023 when they changed their mind even though research had put significant doubts in this by 2021.

      They WHO isn’t usually the most speedy at getting the details right. I’d look for literature reviews.