Children potentially exposed to monkeypox at Illinois daycare, officials say
Authorities said no one else has tested positive. Illinois health officials had determined that between 40 and 50 people, many of whom are children, had been potentially exposed to the day-care worker directly or to items that had been handled by the person, officials said., wrote in a text message Friday night. Pryde said that several dozen children had been offered vaccines, pending their guardians’ approval.
Local officials also credited the federal response, which has been scrutinized in recent weeks by physicians and patients who have complained ofwhen trying to access treatments, tests and vaccines. Sameer Vohra, director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, commended federal regulators Friday for allowing the swift vaccination of exposed children with their parents’ approval and “without jumping through the normal hoops in this process.
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