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Monkeypox is not a highly transmissible illness, neither is it usually fatal.
There was an outbreak in 2003, 71 cases were recorded in the US, no fatalities.
It is spread by close contact and does not survive long outside of a host environment.
Although it can be spread in heavy droplets, it is not airborne.
This is a sharp distinction between it and say, COVID, which spreads by surviving for hours outside of a host environment, suspended in air.
Monkeypox symptoms are mild, ranging from headache and fever, to feeling sore. The hand blistering (which actually is a generalized body rash) can occur weeks after basic symptoms resolve, as part of the viral cycle or a post-viral reaction and is again, not at all life threatening and usually does not scar if treated properly.
Symptoms are all easily treatable and the illness resolves within 2-4 weeks.
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