How does monkeypox spread? What scientists know
Long-term contact, particularly with a person's skin lesions, is now thought to be the main method of transmission. Infected cells are seen in blue in this coloured transmission electron microscope picture of monkeypox virus particles (red). Credit: SPL/NIAID/NIH Researchers are learning more about the disease's transmission as the number of cases of monkeypox worldwide keeps rising. According to a number of recent research, early predictions that the virus spreads mostly through frequent skin-to-skin contact between individuals have largely come true. According to Oriol Mitjà, a researcher in infectious diseases at the Germans Trias I Pujol University Hospital in Barcelona, Spain, who co-authored one of the recent studies published in The Lancet1, "When you put all these studies together, we see that the clinical presentation everywhere is similar—but also surprising." This is due to the fact that the signs and symptoms are different from what scientists had seen i
