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Alternative Title:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7114a1
Personal Author:
Rao, Agam K. ; Schulte, Joann ; Chen, Tai-Ho ; Hughes, Christine M. ; Davidson, Whitni ; ... More +
Rao, Agam K. ; Schulte, Joann ; Chen, Tai-Ho ; Hughes, Christine M. ; Davidson, Whitni ; Neff, Justin M. ; Markarian, Mary ; Delea, Kristin C. ; Wada, Suzanne ; Liddell, Allison ; Alexander, Shane ; Sunshine, Brittany ; Huang, Philip ; Honza, Heidi Threadgill ; Rey, Araceli ; Monroe, Benjamin ; Doty, Jeffrey ; Christensen, Bryan ; Delaney, Lisa ; Massey, Joel ; Waltenburg, Michelle ; Schrodt, Caroline A. ; Kuhar, David ; Satheshkumar, Panayampalli S. ; Kondas, Ashley ; Li, Yu ; Wilkins, Kimberly ; Sage, Kylie M. ; Yu, Yon ; Yu, Patricia ; Feldpausch, Amanda ; McQuiston, Jennifer ; Damon, Inger K. ; McCollum, Andrea M. ; Aminu-Alhaji, Asma’u ; Andersen, Lauren ; Arduino, Matthew ; Bestul, Nicolette ; Bias, Megan ; Choi, Mary J. ; Gigante, Crystal ; Harkey, Madison ; Hendricks, Kate ; Hercules, Yonette ; Husain, Farah ; Ipadeola, Oladipupo ; Jungerman, Robynne ; Khan, Theodora ; Kharod, Grishma ; Kunkel, Amber ; MacGurn, Amanda ; Matheny, Audrey ; McCleod, Timothy ; Minhaj, Faisal S. ; Mink, Jenna ; Morgan, Clint ; Nakazawa, Yoshinori ; Newton, Donovan ; Ortega, Eddy ; Priyamvada, Lalita ; Radford, Kay ; Rehfus, Joseph ; Saleh, Muhammad Muhammad ; Townsend, Michael B. ; Traxler, Rita ; Whitehill, Florence ; Wu, Xianfu ; Zhao, Hui ; Carruthers, Michelle ; Gomez, Ivory ; Groppell, Samantha ; Jaramillo, Juan ; Serinaldi, Daniel ; Serrano, Jose ; Stringer, Joey ; Gettings, Jenna ; Pavlick, Jessica ; Retana, José David ; Stonecipher, Shelley ; Straver, Rachael ; Vilcins, Inger-Marie ; Nolen, Leisha D. ; Less -
Corporate Authors:
July 2021 Monkeypox Response Team ;
Description:
Monkeypox is a rare, sometimes life-threatening zoonotic infection that occurs in west and central Africa. It is caused by Monkeypox virus, an orthopoxvirus similar to Variola virus (the causative agent of smallpox) and Vaccinia virus (the live virus component of orthopoxvirus vaccines) and can spread to humans. After 39 years without detection of human disease in Nigeria, an outbreak involving 118 confirmed cases was identified during 2017-2018 (1); sporadic cases continue to occur. During September 2018-May 2021, six unrelated persons traveling from Nigeria received diagnoses of monkeypox in non-African countries: four in the United Kingdom and one each in Israel and Singapore. In July 2021, a man who traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, to Dallas, Texas, became the seventh traveler to a non-African country with diagnosed monkeypox. Among 194 monitored contacts, 144 (74%) were flight contacts. The patient received tecovirimat, an antiviral for treatment of orthopoxvirus infections, and his home required large-scale decontamination. Whole genome sequencing showed that the virus was consistent with a strain of Monkeypox virus known to circulate in Nigeria, but the specific source of the patient's infection was not identified. No epidemiologically linked cases were reported in Nigeria; no contact received postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) with the orthopoxvirus vaccine ACAM2000.
Subject:
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Animals
Humans
Male
Monkeypox
Monkeypox Virus
Zoonoses

Source:
MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 71(14):509-516 ;
Pubmed ID:
35389974
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC8989376
Document Type:
Journal Article ;
Place as Subject:
Nigeria ; Texas ;
Nigeria ; Texas ; Less -
Collection(s):
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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