Infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, however, put the findings in perspecitive. “The epidemiologic data we have so far in this outbreak support that people are not contracting monkeypox through touching contaminated surfaces. The preponderance of data indicates it’s being transmitted through direct physical contact, whether sexual or non-sexual.”
Osterholm is the director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, publisher of CIDRAP News.
The contamination occurred despite the patients reporting showering once or twice each day, performing hand hygiene approximately 10 times daily, laundering bedding and clothing weekly, and performing routine household cleaning, such as mopping and daily use of a multi-surface spray on most high-contact surfaces, the authors said.
“Persons living in or visiting the home of someone with monkeypox should follow appropriate precautions against indirect exposure and transmission by wearing a well-fitting mask, avoiding touching possibly contaminated surfaces, maintaining appropriate hand hygiene, avoiding sharing eating utensils, clothing, bedding, or towels, and following home disinfection recommendations,” the authors concluded.
Source: Evidence of monkeypox virus found on household surfaces | CIDRAP


You must be logged in to post a comment.