{"id":477220,"date":"2022-07-23T09:36:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/two-children-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-u-s-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2022-07-23T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T06:36:32","slug":"two-children-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-u-s-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-children-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-u-s-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"#Two children diagnosed with monkeypox in U.S., officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a44921098516\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a44921098516\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/two-children-diagnosed-with-monkeypox-in-u-s-officials-say\/#%E2%80%9CTwo_children_diagnosed_with_monkeypox_in_US_officials_say%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Two children diagnosed with monkeypox in U.S., officials say&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CTwo_children_diagnosed_with_monkeypox_in_US_officials_say%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Two children diagnosed with monkeypox in U.S., officials say&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/two-children-diagnosed.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2022\/two-children-diagnosed.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the United States: a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health officials said Friday, July 22, 2022. Credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner\/CDC via AP, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2022\/two-children-diagnosed.jpg\" alt=\"Two children diagnosed with monkeypox in U.S., officials say\" title=\"This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the United States: a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health officials said Friday, July 22, 2022. Credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner\/CDC via AP, File\" width=\"700\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the United States: a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health officials said Friday, July 22, 2022. Credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner\/CDC via AP, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.\n                                                <\/p>\n<p>                                                                                One is a toddler in California and the other an infant who is not a U.S. resident but was tested while in Washington, D.C., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n<p>The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission.<\/p>\n<p>Other details weren&#8217;t im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don&#8217;t see the disease. In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the two pediatric cases, health officials said they were aware of at least eight women among the more than 2,800 U.S. cases reported so far.<\/p>\n<p>While the virus has mostly been spreading among men who have sex with men, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think its surprising that we are occasionally going to see cases&#8221; outside that social network, the CDC&#8217;s Jennifer McQuiston told reporters Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2022\/two-children-diagnosed-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/hires\/2022\/two-children-diagnosed-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the United States: a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health officials said Friday, July 22, 2022. Credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner\/CDC via AP, File\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2022\/two-children-diagnosed-1.jpg\" alt=\"Two children diagnosed with monkeypox in U.S., officials say\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-truncate text-low-up mt-3\">\n                This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the United States: a toddler in California and an infant who is not a U.S. resident, health officials said Friday, July 22, 2022. Credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner\/CDC via AP, File<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Officials have said the virus can spread through close personal contact, and via towels and bedding. That means it can happen in homes, likely through prolonged or intensive contact, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People don&#8217;t crawl on each other&#8217;s beds unless they are living in the same house or family,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In Europe, there have been <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/monkeypoxreport.ecdc.europa.eu\/\">at least six monkeypox cases<\/a> among kids 17 years old and younger.<\/p>\n<p>This week, doctors in the Netherlands published <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurosurveillance.org\/content\/10.2807\/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.29.2200552\">a report<\/a> of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.<\/p>\n<p>In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.<\/p>\n<p>One reason may be that many older adults were vaccinated against smallpox as kids, likely giving them some protection against the related monkeypox virus, Lawler said. Smallpox vaccinations were discontinued when the disease was eradicated about 40 years ago.\n                                                                                                                        <\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<div class=\"article-main__explore my-4 d-print-none\">\n<p>                                                                                        UK reports 104 more cases of monkeypox, mostly in men\n                                                                                    <\/p><\/div>\n<hr class=\"mb-4\"\/>\n<p class=\"article-main__note mt-4\">\n                                                \u00a9 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. 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