Human-to-Dog Monkeypox, France

Human-to-Dog Monkeypox, France

I’ll start this off with “don’t freak out, overhype this, or be paranoid about your dog.” (I’ll probably end with that too). A recent report in Lancet (Seang et al. 2022) describes a pretty solid case of suspected monkeypox virus (MPXV) transmission from people to a dog.

Go to full article: https://www.wormsandgermsblog.com/2022/08/articles/diseases/other-diseases/human-dog-monkeypox-france/

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