Does monkeypox spread in the same way as Covid-19?
An image take during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1996 and 1997 shows the arms and torso of a patient with skin lesions from monkeypox.Experts have explained there are significant differences between monkeypox and the coronavirus,head of the smallpox secretariat at the World Health Organization , said the two viruses are not the same.
from an infected person’s mouth or nose in small liquid particles when they cough, sneeze, speak, sing or breathe. These particles range from larger respiratory droplets to smaller aerosols.WHO infectious disease epidemiologist Dr Maria Van Kerkhove said monkeypox transmission “is happening from close physical contact, skin-to-skin contact. It is quite different from Covid-19 in that sense”.