The CDC has sparked a backlash for scrapping advice for travelers to wear face masks to prevent the spread of monkeypox.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sparked a backlash for scrapping advice for travelers to wear face masks to prevent the spread of monkeypox.updated its monkeypox travel guidance to read:"Wear a mask. Wearing a mask can help protect you from many diseases, including monkeypox." It also raised the monkeypox alert level to Level 2, indicating that people should"practice enhanced precautions.
On the evening of June 6, however, the mask recommendation was deleted from the monkeypox travel notice on the CDC website. In a statement issued on June 7, the agency said:"CDC removed the mask recommendation from the monkeypox travel health notice because it caused confusion." In this combination image, stock photo of a young woman wearing a face mask while traveling and a blood sample tube positive for monkeypox.More than 1,000 monkeypox cases have been recorded across 29 countries in recent weeks, according to the World Health Organization. The virus is rarely fatal and is primarily thought to spread through direct contact with a contaminated person.—spreading through the air in the form of droplets, similar to COVID-19.
In a follow-up post, Feigl-Ding added:"I'm now furious at the @CDCgov. How can the @CDCDirector allow such irresponsible double backtrack messaging? Especially if it only serves to undermine the CDC and not make anyone safer with this idiotic public risk communication."
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