CDC Raises Travel Alert for Monkeypox

CDC Raises Travel Alert for Monkeypox
A section of skin tissue harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. CDC/Handout via Reuters
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revised its travel advisory related to the recent monkeypox outbreak around the world from Level 1 to Level 2.

According to an update posted to the agency’s website: “Cases of monkeypox have been reported in Europe, North America, and Australia,” adding that cases were reported among homosexual males. “Some cases were also reported in people who live in the same household as an infected person.
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