[CatHerd]

I’m not saying these people didn’t “go there” but the information you can’t catch monkeypox in other ways is flat wrong.

You *could* catch it by shaking hands with someone if that someone had oozing pox pustules on their hand or had bodily fluids on that hand. And you *could* catch it by lying in bed next to someone with monkeypox if that person’s bodily fluids were on the bedding. All it takes is a tiny break in your skin and the virus can enter through it.

A lot of kids caught it from infected pet prairie dogs here in the US in 2003. Some years ago, a nurse in the UK caring for a very sick monkeypox patient caught it when she came into contact with his bodily fluids while wearing insufficient PPE. Household members have caught it from handling the soiled laundry or bedding of monkeypox sufferers without taking the precaution of wearing gloves.

It’s true that you can’t catch it through brief casual contact, but you can catch it through close contact in other ways than “going there”.

[Chickensoup]

Exactly.

But don’t stop a good drama.

[bantam]

True!

[mosaicwolf]

"It’s true that you can’t catch it through brief casual contact, but you can catch it through close contact in other ways than “going there”."

If you travel and use a public rest room, better pack a disinfectant wipe with you and clean the toilet seat before use. Never know who or what kind of person sat before you.