Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO on how to prevent mpox infection

"The main thing is really to avoid close contact with somebody who has Mpox. This can happen with families, people who have Mpox, especially if you have the lesions, to cover those lesions...there's ways to prevent transmission from one person to another even if you have lesions by covering them up...if someone has lesions, if they are symptomatic to avoid having sex. Because if we know that they're in the sexual networks then that is one way, sexual transmission is one way in which the Mpox is spread between people..."