❌ This is not a real fact box from the BBC -- and the information about monkeypox is inaccurate, according to public health agencies
According to the WHO, monkeypox"is transmitted from one person to another by close contact with lesions, body fluids, respiratory droplets and contaminated materials such as bedding." Symptoms last up to four weeks, according to the public health agency -- not four months, as the post claims.
The spread of monkeypox via respiratory droplets is different from airborne transmission, which refers to when a pathogen lingers in the air, sometimes for hours. That is one way the coronavirusAs of August 8, health authorities had not reported airborne transmission of monkeypox. "Monkeypox virus is a completely different virus than those that cause Covid-19 or measles," Kate Fowlie, a spokeswoman at the
, told AFP on August 4."It is not known to linger in the air and is not transmitted during short periods of shared airspace."Fowlie said that, based on what scientists know so far, the disease is generally contracted"by close, sustained physical contact with other people who are infected with the virus."
Monkeypox lesions can appear on the genitals -- but the disease is not a"form of herpes," as the post claims.. HSV-1 is transmitted orally, while HSV-2 is a sexually transmitted infection that causes genital herpes.
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