Health care personnel exposures to subsequently laboratory-confirmed monkeypox patients - Colorado, 2022

Am J Transplant. 2022 Nov;22(11):2699-2703. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16681.

Abstract

This article describes 313 healthcare providers in Colorado who were exposed to patients with monkeypox and had low rates of personal protective equipment use and postexposure prophylaxis vaccination. Despite this, through 21 days of follow-up, none of the healthcare providers had acquired monkeypox infection, suggesting the risk for acquiring monkeypox among U.S. healthcare providers is very low. This is reassuring data for organ procurement teams who are exposed to potential organ donors with possible monkeypox infection or undiagnosed skin lesions.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Colorado / epidemiology
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology