CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Dr. Allison Arwady, Chicago’s Department of Public Health Commissioner, said Chicago now has 434 cases of Monkeypox.
That accounts for about 10% of the total confirmed cases in the country.
“Anyone can get MPV, because it is literally an issue of having this close, skin-to-skin contact with someone who has a sore,” Arwady said. “From the data here in Chicago, across the U.S., [and] across Europe — gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with other men have made up, by far, the majority of the cases, and that remains the group in which it is spreading the most.”
Tests are widely available, she said, and if you have an unexplained rash, get tested.
There are more than 500 cases in Illinois, which has declared Monkeypox a public health emergency. Of the 434 cases in Chicago, 20 were serious enough to require hospitalization.
About 13,000 doses of vaccine have been ordered and are expected to be delivered in the next two to three weeks.
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