How do Molluscum
Spread?
Molluscum spread by direct contact. This is typically via
skin to skin contact which allows the virus to travel from one
indivudal to another.
This can occur during play between children, athletic
activites, and during sexual contact as well.
It is believed that some spread may occur via fomites as
well (towels, benches, pools, etc.). Here the virus would
spread from an infected individual to the fomite and then from
the fomite to another person.
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