Passenger with human monkeypox traveled through Atlanta airport, CDC warns
Source: wsbtv.com
July 16, 2021 at 5:19 pm EDT
ATLANTA — A U.S resident who had spent some time in Nigeria before heading home is the first reported case of monkeypox in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control.
The CDC says the traveler left Lagos, Nigeria on July 8, arriving in Atlanta on early on July 9. After a layover at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, the traveler continued on to Dallas later on the 9th. The traveler is currently in a Dallas hospital.
CDC investigators have not released a description of the traveler and are working with airline, state and local health officials to contact passengers or others who might have come in contact with the patient during the trip.
Investigators say mask policies put into place during the COVID-19 pandemic likely limited other traveler’s exposure to the virus, which is also a respiratory virus...........................
Read more: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/1st-us-case-monkeypox-comes-traveler-flying-through-at
maybe have to start with the #wearadamnmask again.
I do anyway when out to stores.
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