The virus is contagious through skin-to-skin contact and the exchange of bodily fluids, for example by kissing, cuddling or having sex. Monkeypox hardly spreads through the air. ‘It often starts with a fever or general tiredness. After a few days you get red spots and then the typical smallpox develops’, says De Boer. According to her, the danger lies mainly in the blisters that open where bacteria can crawl. ‘Then infections arise.’
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