Children, especially those under 8 years old, are among those the CDCgov warns are at 'especially increased risk' for severe monkeypox disease.
Health officials have confirmed the first U.S. cases of monkeypox in children, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Thursday. with The Washington Post on Friday, saying that both children"are doing well."
Children, especially those under 8 years old, are among those the Centers for Disease Control and PreventionLast week, CDC officials told reporters that at that point, they were only aware of monkeypox cases in adults. Most cases so far have been among men who have sex with men. that state and local health authorities had only relayed additional demographic information to them for less than half of all tallied cases.
"We have seen now two cases that have occurred in children. Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men-who-have-sex-with-men community, the gay men's community," Walensky said.Dr. Patrick Hickey, a pediatrics professor at Uniformed Services University in Maryland, on Twitter that he had heard from his colleagues of monkeypox cases"in 2 pregnant women and a toddler." A spokesperson for Maryland's health department said the state was not sharing any demographic information about monkeypox cases there"at this time." a total of 2,593 cases of monkeypox in the U.S. across 44 states, as well as the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
While the virus has led to many adult patients enduring pain and sometimes severe complications, many of the cases have so far resolved after several weeks without intensive treatment or hospitalization.In countries that have seen an endemic spread of monkeypox before 2022, the World Health Organization warns that young children have diedDuring the current outbreak, a handful of countries have also spotted cases of monkeypox in children under 18 years old.
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