Officials have said the virus can spread through close personal contact, and via towels and bedding. That means it can happen in homes, likely through prolonged or intensive contact, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
"People don't crawl on each other's beds unless they are living in the same house or family," he said.
This stuff can spread to innocent people. And it is spreading. Maybe it doesn't spread easily, but I don't like the fact that people are carrying this crap around and that you could pick it up by touching something that they handled. Or by inhaling their droplets.
In Europe, there have been at least six monkeypox cases among kids 17 years old and younger.
This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.
In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.
