California colleges are applying lessons learned from COVID-19 as they attempt to keep monkeypox from spreading on campuses. Experts say the disease poses a lower health risk than COVID but could keep students from their studies for longer periods.
“Really promoting the availability of vaccination, both pre-exposure but also after someone’s exposed, that’s going to be our key in stopping this from spreading,” Van Orman said. USC has already seen cases on campus, she said, but the spike in cases nationally and locally has started to flatten.
Staff prepare monkeypox vaccines for administration at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital on Aug. 12, 2022. Photo by Martin do Nascimento, CalMatters “If there’s somebody who has monkeypox in your dorm or in your classroom or in your workplace, you’re probably not going to know about it, and nor do you need to know about it,” said Van Orman. “That person does not pose a risk to you.”
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