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Infant diagnosed with monkeypox in DC, officials say

By FOX 5 DC Digital Team
Published 
Monkeypox
Associated Press

DC leads the nation in Monkeypox cases per capita

Our nation's capital is also the country's leader in Monkeypox cases per capita. That's according to D.C. leaders who addressed the outbreak Monday and are urging members of the public to stay alert.

WASHINGTON - Two children have been diagnosed with monkeypox in the U.S., health officials said Friday.

One is an infant who is not a U.S. resident but was tested while in Washington, D.C. and the other is a toddler in California, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The children were described as being in good health and receiving treatment. How they caught the disease is being investigated, but officials think it was through household transmission.

Other details weren’t immediately disclosed.

Monkeypox is endemic in parts of Africa, but this year more than 15,000 cases have been reported in countries that historically don’t see the disease. In the U.S. and Europe, the vast majority of infections have happened in men who have sex with men, though health officials have stressed that anyone can catch the virus.

In addition to the two pediatric cases, health officials said they were aware of at least eight women among the more than 2,800 U.S. cases reported so far.

READ MORE: Monkeypox cases near 200 across DC, Maryland and Virginia

While the virus has mostly been spreading among men who have sex with men, "I don’t think it's surprising that we are occasionally going to see cases" outside that social network, the CDC’s Jennifer McQuiston told reporters Friday.

Officials have said the virus can spread through close personal contact, and via towels and bedding. That means it can happen in homes, likely through prolonged or intensive contact, said Dr. James Lawler, an infectious diseases specialist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

"People don’t crawl on each other’s beds unless they are living in the same house or family," he said.

In Europe, there have been at least six monkeypox cases among kids 17 years old and younger.

DC Mayor Bowser holds monkeypox outbreak update after cases in District top 120

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser addressed the District's monkeypox outbreak after more than 120 cases have been reported.

This week, doctors in the Netherlands published a report of a boy who was seen at an Amsterdam hospital with about 20 red-brown bumps scattered across his body. It was monkeypox, and doctors said they could not determine how he got it.

In Africa, monkeypox infections in children have been more common, and doctors have noted higher proportions of severe cases and deaths in young children.

One reason may be that many older adults were vaccinated against smallpox as kids, likely giving them some protection against the related monkeypox virus, Lawler said. Smallpox vaccinations were discontinued when the disease was eradicated about 40 years ago.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.