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How does monkeypox spread? What scientists know

Prolonged contact, especially with a person’s skin lesions, is emerging as the top transmission route.
  1. Max Kozlov
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As global monkeypox cases continue to soar, researchers are learning more about how the disease is spreading. Early predictions that the virus transmits primarily through repeated skin-to-skin contact between people have largely borne out, according to a tranche of new studies.

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Nature 608, 655-656 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02178-w

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