4. Kids can get it
Kids always seem to get lumbered with the worst illnesses in their early lives. It seems like a pretty raw deal that illnesses and infections should target the young, just as they do the old and infirm, but it makes perfect sense when you think about it.
In the animal kingdom, a lion targets the weakest buffalo as it knows that on the face of it, it’s got an easier meal, but under the surface, it also knows that it can keep itself going for longer by picking off the sick and the weak. The Molluscum contagiosum virus works in the same way, living off the closeness that children share with each other and hopping from vessel to vessel, taking root in the form of its trademark spots and pus-filled blisters.
Once it’s stayed the course in one person, all it needs is a little skin to skin contact for direct transmission and failing that, it’s happy to cling to a door handle where it’ll sit and happily wait to be picked up by its next victim.