(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — As the number confirmed monkeypox cases rises in Chicago, the city's health commissioner says the risk to most people is extremely low.
Dr. Allison Arwady on Tuesday reported 105 identified cases of monkeypox in Chicago.
Most patients are men who had sex with other men.
“Spread is primarily through skin-to-skin contact,” Arwady said. “This is not being transmitted by passing somebody in a grocery store. This is not being transmitted through casual contact.”
The city has received a small number of monkeypox vaccine doses from the federal government, Arwady said.
They are being given only to those people at highest risk of contracting the virus, or who are known to have had close physical contact with an infected person, she said.
The city expects to get more vaccine in the next couple of months.
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