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SUBMITTER: Petersen BW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6438175 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Petersen Brett W BW Kabamba Joelle J McCollum Andrea M AM Lushima Robert Shongo RS Wemakoy Emile Okitolonda EO Muyembe Tamfum Jean-Jacques JJ Nguete Beatrice B Hughes Christine M CM Monroe Benjamin P BP Reynolds Mary G MG
Antiviral research 20181114
Healthcare-associated transmission of monkeypox has been observed on multiple occasions in areas where the disease is endemic. Data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from an ongoing CDC-supported program of enhanced surveillance in the Tshuapa Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the annual incidence of human monkeypox is estimated to be 3.5-5/10,000, suggests that there is approximately one healthcare worker infection for every 100 confirmed ...[more]