Dylan HousmanDaily Caller Healthcare ReporterThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study Friday, Aug. 19, suggesting that people wear masks to protect themselves from monkeypox despite growing evidence the virus is transmitted sexually.The CDC’s Friday Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), its internal journal, included research on the spread of monkeypox via contaminated surfaces. Researchers in Utah sampled 30 different samples from the home of two monkeypox patients, and found that 21 of the surfaces yielded positive real-time PCR results, but none tested positive for viral cultures.Still, despite the lack of live virus found in the samples, the paper still warns that monkeypox can spread through surface contact. The agency also recomm
