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- Title
Health Care Personnel Exposure Risk Assessment and Management During a Mpox Outbreak in Chicago, Illinois, 17 May to 8 July 2022.
- Authors
Zelencik, Shane; VanDine, Alison; Campos-Bovee, Maria; Goitia, Kimberly; Cela, Valbona; Walblay, Kelly; Galanto, Daniel; Pacilli, Massimo; Kim, Do Young; Black, Stephanie R
- Abstract
This report summarizes risk assessment interviews and follow-up with health care personnel (HCP) after exposure to patients with mpox disease during 17 May to 8 July 2022. HCP-case interactions were assessed using a standard questionnaire to categorize the risk associated with patient encounters. We assessed 150 interactions among 142 HCP and 30 cases. Four (2.7%) interactions were defined as high risk, 5 (3.3%) intermediate, 107 (71.3%) low, and 31 (20.7%) no risk. High and intermediate exposures were offered postexposure prophylaxis; 4 accepted. No documented mpox transmission after exposure was identified. These findings suggest transmission risk in health care settings during routine patient care is low.
- Subjects
CHICAGO (Ill.); MEDICAL personnel; MONKEYPOX; RISK assessment; PRE-exposure prophylaxis; RISK exposure
- Publication
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2024, Vol 229, pS207
- ISSN
0022-1899
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/infdis/jiad531