The CDC has clarified its guidance on wearing face masks to avoid monkeypox, which primarily spreads through direct bodily contact and is not airborne.
Monkeypox, unlike COVID-19 or measles, is does not linger in the air and “is not transmitted during short periods of shared airspace,” the statement said. The CDC said it hasn’t heard of anybody catching monkeypox while sitting on an airplane near somebody with monkeypox, even on a long international flight.
People who already have monkeypox are advised to continue wearing a mask around others in their homes if close contact is likely, the CDC says. Health care workers and people who may have close contact with somebody with monkeypox are also advised to wear masks.
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