Prevention

Good personal hygiene is a key factor in avoiding transmission of this disease.

• MC is spread by close personal contact with infected people. Avoid skin-to-skin contact with others in order to prevent transmission.
  
  
• Transmission has been shown to occur in children from swimming pools and in the sharing of baths, towels, gym equipment, and benches.
  
  
• Because the rash can spread by autoinoculation (spread from one part of the body to another by touching the lesions), avoid scratching the lesions.
  
  
• Because sexual transmission is common in adults, avoid sexual contact with infected people. It is unclear whether condoms are effective in preventing spread of MC.