As the number of monkeypox cases continues climbing across the country, some social media users are making dubious claims about the virus outbreak.
“CDC has now classified this disease as airborne and anybody within 15 feet can catch it,” read part of an Aug. 3 Facebook post that was shared nearly 700 times in less than five days.
Other versions of the post, which included an array of other claims about the disease, racked up hundreds of additional shares across the platform.
But the CDC did not issue any such guidance on monkeypox. Neither the CDC nor the WHO websites have information substantiating that or any of the other claims in the post.
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USA TODAY reached out to social media users who shared the claim for comment.
While the BBC has covered the monkeypox outbreak, it hasn't reported any of the claims presented in the Facebook post.
"We can confirm that this is not a real BBC graphic and we urge people to check the veracity of stories on the BBC News website," a BBC spokesperson said in a statement emailed to USA TODAY on Aug. 9.
Kate Fowlie, a spokesperson for the CDC, told USA TODAY in an Aug. 4 email that it “isn’t correct" that the organization classified monkeypox as an airborne...
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