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Mpox is a disease caused by infection with monkeypox virus. Mpox is endemic throughout Central and West Africa near forests.
People usually become infected with the monkeypox virus through contact with the skin lesions or bodily fluids of infected animals or humans (alive or dead), including respiratory droplets, or through contact with materials contaminated with the virus. Transmission also occurs through intimate contact, including sex, with an infected person.
Symptoms often include fever (≥100.4°F), rash, headache, muscle aches, and swollen lymph nodes. Fever is not always present. Lesions typically develop at the same time and evolve together on any given part of the body. Mpox is a potentially fatal disease.
There is a vaccine available for mpox.
Source of original article: CDC Travel Notices (tools.cdc.gov).
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