PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The CDC has changed its guidance on monkeypox to make it more clear how it is most commonly spread. The CDC’s website now says new cases in the current outbreak of monkeypox are “almost exclusively spread through sexual contact.”
For months, some health care providers and community leaders have argued that the public health agency should be more explicit about how the virus is spread, pointing to CDC data indicating 94% of confirmed cases were among men who reported recent sexual contact with other men.
The chief medical officer for the CDC told the Associated Press they are considering expanding recommendations for the vaccine, though exactly how it would be expanded was not immediately clear.
Currently, the CDC recommends vaccination to anyone who is in close contact with, or a recent sex partner of, someone with monkeypox, or someone who has had multiple partners.
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