Unless you’re directly touching them, you’re not going to get infected.”How does mpox spread? Mpox, previously called monkeypox, is a virus that causes fevers, headaches, muscle aches and painful, open wounds on the skin. While Covid is a respiratory virus that spreads through the air, mpox is spread from person to person through close, skin-to-skin contact with those lesions. Clade I accounts for the latest mpox strain that’s driving the outbreak in parts of Africa. “It’s not airborne,” Taylor said, adding that there is no evidence that the mpox virus is mutating or spreading in a way that would prompt school closures.

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Persons: “ I’M, Young ”, ‘, ’ ”, “, ”, Michelle Taylor, Christina Hutson, you’re, Paul Offit, “ That’s, ” Hutson, Carlos del Rio, Del, mpox, ” Taylor Organizations: World Health Organization, Health Department, Centers for Disease Control, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Democratic, CDC, Emory University Locations: Shelby, Memphis , Tennessee, Africa, United States, Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC, Sweden, U.S, Atlanta, Del Rio