Don’t touch foreigners to reduce monkeypox risk – Chinese health official

BEIJING --- A senior Chinese health official advised people to avoid physical contact with foreigners to prevent possible monkeypox infection after the first known case of the virus on mainland China was reported on Friday. "To prevent possible monkeypox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is recommended that 1) you do not have direct skin-to-skin contact with foreigners," Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention posted on his official Weibo page on Saturday. Wu also called for people to avoid "skin-to-skin contact" with people who have been abroad within the past three weeks as well as all "strangers," as he cautione...

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