Top US medical body, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is monitoring six people in the United States for possible monkeypox infection after they sat near a traveller who had symptoms of the virus while on a flight from Nigeria to the United Kingdom in early May, a report by American news network CNN said on Friday.
The current spread of the virus across the world has come as a surprise as the occurrence in humans has been very rare. The first case of this year in the US was seen in a Massachusetts man who had recently travelled to Canada. The virus, which mostly is found in young men, originates in wild animals like rodents and primates, and occasionally jumps to humans
