CNN travel | CDC’s travel advisory on monkeypox: ‘Practice enhanced precautions’

(CNN) — The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has an “Alert — Level 2” advisory for travelers to “practice enhanced precautions” because of the spread of monkeypox, a rare disease that’s a cousin of smallpox.

On its advisory, the CDC said that the “risk to the general public is low, but you should seek medical care immediately if you develop new, unexplained skin rash (lesions on any part of the body), with or without fever and chills.”

The CDC has three types of levels it might issue as cases have been reported in dozens of destinations. The levels are:

  • Watch — Level 1: Practice usual precautions
  • Alert — Level 2: Practice enhanced precautions
  • Warning — Level 3: Avoid nonessential travel

On its website, the CDC has not applied levels to specific destinations, as it does with Covid-19.  –read more–