猴痘病毒如何传播?

猴痘病毒通过与受感染的动物或人的密切接触传播. 或者当一个人处理与猴痘患者接触过的材料（例如毯子）时，病毒也会传播.

猴痘病毒通过以下途径在人与人之间传播:

• 直接接触皮疹, 猴痘患者的结痂或体液.
• Extended close contact (more than four hours) with respiratory droplets from an infected person. This includes sexual contact.
• Clothes, sheets, blankets or other materials that have been in contact with rashes or body fluids of an infected person.
• An infected pregnant person can spread the monkeypox virus to a fetus.

Monkeypox spreads from an animal to a person through:

• Animal bites or scratches
• Wild game that is cooked for food
• Products made of infected animals
• Direct contact with body fluids or rashes of animals with monkeypox