The Connecticut Department of Public Health’s website has specific details on who’s eligible for the vaccine, and where it’s available. At this time the vaccine is restricted to those who meet certain criteria, either having had close personal contact with someone known to have monkeypox, or who self-report certain behaviors that might put them at higher risk of infection. There are two vaccines that are available, although at this time they are in limited supply and not as widely available as COVID-19 and influenza vaccines are, for example. For those with severe illness, or who are more likely to get severely ill or are immunocompromised, antivirals are available. Most have mild illness and get better on their own, so the treatment is to isolate and provide supportive care, including pain control. David Banach is UConn Health’s hospital epidemiologist and an infectious diseases physician. Some good news: It doesn’t seem that people who are asymptomatic can spread it, at least based on our understanding at this time. The illness typically lasts two to four weeks. Symptoms also can include fever, headache, muscle aches, chills, swollen lymph nodes, and fatigue. People who are infected with monkeypox often have a rash which can take different forms, including pimpling, blistering, or other lesions. Some good news: It doesn’t seem that people who are asymptomatic can spread it. It’s important to report this detail, as not doing so would be a disservice to the communities this disease is impacting the most at this time.
We point this out not to judge or stigmatize, but rather to make the best use of the available data from a public health standpoint. are among men who report being sexually active with other men. Most of the current cases on record in Connecticut and the U.S. Monkeypox primarily spreads through close skin-to-skin contact, and in that way technically anyone could get it. Who’s at most risk of catching monkeypox? David Banach, infectious diseases physician and hospital epidemiologist at UConn Health, offers some answers to common questions. and other countries where it historically has been uncommon, Dr. With the increasing prevalence of monkeypox in the U.S.
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