CDC confirms 137 monkeypox cases in Indiana

Digitally-colorized electron microscopic (EM) image depicting a monkeypox virion (virus particle), obtained from a clinical sample associated with a 2003 prairie dog outbreak, published June 6, 2022. The image depicts a thin section image from a human skin sample. On the left are mature, oval-shaped virus particles, and on the right are the crescents and spherical particles of immature virions. (Photo via Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Wednesday that there are 137 total monkeypox cases in Indiana. There are 16,603 cases in the U.S.

Indiana Department of Health is distributing vaccinations through a web survey page.

Monkeypox cases usually begin with fever, headaches, chills, and body aches from five to 21 days after exposure. Within one to three days after symptoms begin, the patient develops a rash. The illness lasts from two to four weeks. Patients are considered infectious until all scabs from the rash have fallen off.

Dr. Jerome Adams, WISH-TV’s medical expert and a former U.S. surgeon general, tweeted Friday that the outbreak of monkeypox will “get worse before it gets better.”

More information regarding monkeypox can be found on the CDC’s website.