Most people recover from the disease within several weeks without requiring hospitalization. It can be spread through close contact with an infected person or their clothing or bedsheets, but sexual transmission has not yet been documented. Monkeypox typically causes fever, chills, rash, and lesions on the face or genitals. Heymann chaired an urgent meeting of WHO's advisory group on infectious disease threats on Friday to assess the ongoing epidemic and said there was no evidence to suggest that monkeypox might have mutated into a more infectious form. Enrique Ruiz Escudero said authorities are investigating possible links between a recent Gay Pride event in the Canary Islands, which drew some 80,000 people, and cases at a Madrid sauna. Madrid's senior health official said on Monday that the Spanish capital has recorded 30 confirmed cases so far. Jon LaPook it's unusual that we are seeing cases happening in several countries at the same time: 'We've never seen that.' She told CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr.

Anne Rimoin, professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. 'It's important to know that this virus really does require close personal contact,' said Dr. The virus is spread through body fluids, skin and respiratory droplets.