U.S. CDC Ups Monkeypox Alert to Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions
byDaniel McCarthy/
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday increased its warning for travel over monkeypox.
疾病预防控制中心first issued a warning for monkeypox last month, increased its warning from Level 1, Practice Usual Precautions to Level 2, Practice Enhanced Precautions because of the continued outbreak. The next level of warning alerts travelers to avoid nonessential travel.
While the risk to the general public is still low, the CDC wants travelers, particularly those going abroad, to be aware of the symptoms and how monkeypox can spread.
Thenew warning alerts travelers为了“避免与生病的人密切接触,包括皮肤病变或生殖器病变的人”,并避免与死者或活动物接触,例如啮齿动物(大鼠,松鼠)和非人类灵长类动物(猴子,猿猴)。”它还提醒旅行者“避免进食或准备野生游戏”。
The CDC wants travelers to be aware that symptoms include fever (higher than 100.4°F), headache, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes, followed by a rash, and then that progress through several stages before falling off. Patients, according to the CDC, are usually ill for 2–4 weeks. Most cases, according to the CDC, are mild.
As of Monday, the U.S. has reported more than 25 cases of monkeypox in 12 different states, including infections from two different strains of the disease. Other countries, including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., have also reported monkeypox infections.
Globally, more than 1,000 cases have been confirmed in 29 countries.