“The virus has not mutated, it has not become more dangerous.

Adults can infect children, children can infect adults.

Monkeypox is submissive to all ages, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

He stressed that children, pregnant women, as well as people with impaired immunity suffer the disease much harder than others.

Earlier, the Netherlands National Institute of Health announced that the first case of monkeypox infection of a child was detected in the country.

Chief Researcher, National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after N.F.

Gamalei, Professor of Virology Anatoly Altshtein, in an interview with NSN, spoke about the situation with monkeypox.