From wot I red:
There seems to be something a bit different about this version of monkeypox (there's a mall number of variants, "Congo" is the worst so far). That's a suggestion, from the spread of cases seen so far.
What was known (i.a.)
It's a virus, transmissible by, in short and qualitatively, all the same ways covid can transmit, but the strong emphasis is on skin to skin transmission, through lesions. Moist body surfaces are another way in, which does include dry particles floating about in the air, from scabs, getting to your eyes, nose etc.
(There's an obvious association in terms of transmission, with AIDS, which predominately goes in through skin lesions. Those are found particularly commonly in body bits associated with particular intimate practices. AIDS is thought to transmit particularly well in Africa and wherever the general skin health is quite poor, leading to more lesions.)
I read that a Smallpox vaccination (the one which leaves a scrambly scar on your arm) is 85% effective in reducing severity. Recently a smallpox+monkeypox vaccine was developed (USA), and there is an antiviral, but they aren't widely available.
Kids since 1971/2 (UK/USA) haven't been getting smallpox vax.
That could suggest kids will be more at risk, though comorbidities which matter are more prevalent in older folk.
Therefore, it seems to me, we could be back to wearing masks and using hand sanitizer.
Bottom line, the case-morbidity is quoted as 3% to 6% for the Congo variant, which is bad (smallpox was 30%)
That 3-6% figure may be enough to bother hospital occupation, again.
Transmissibility is LOW, though at the moment NOT completely understood mechanistically or quantitatively.
How low, is the big unknown.
Probably the more important thing about it is that it LOOKS bloody awful, especially to those who have never had measles or chicken pox, so we can expect rationalty and common sense to fly out of the window.
Better shut the window, you never know. . . .