Department of Medicine

What is monkeypox – and how do we slow the spread?

Written by Colorado Springs Independent | August 24, 2022

“It’ll start by looking like a blister, so it’ll have some fluid in it,” says Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention and control for UCHealth [and professor of medicine at CU School of Medicine]. “Over time, that will change. It’ll darken and have almost like a divot in it. And that’s fairly characteristic, but again, everybody’s a little different.”