People with monkeypox symptoms may want to avoid contact with their pets for three weeks to avoid infecting animals, according to a UK health agency.
says the spread of monkeypox in the U.K. may put pet rodents — such as gerbils, hamsters or rodents — at risk of the virus.
"The worry is the virus could get into domestic animals and essentially ping-pong between them and humans," Lawrence Young, a virologist at the University of Warwick, told"The risk posed is therefore to the non-infected human contacts or in-contact peridomestic or wild rodents," UKHSA said. Other mammal pets, like cats and dogs, should be kept in isolation with regular check ups with veterinarians to make sure symptoms don't develop, the agency added.“No cases of monkeypox have ever been suspected or reported in pets in the UK and the risk remains low,” Christine Middlemiss, the U.K.'s chief veterinary officer, told
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