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. 2022 Sep:13:100318.
doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2022.100318. Epub 2022 Jul 6.

Latin America: Situation and preparedness facing the multi-country human monkeypox outbreak

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales  1   2   3 , Gustavo Lopardo  4 , Sergio Verbanaz  5 , Tomas Orduna  4   6 , Susana Lloveras  4   6 , Jose María Azeñas-Burgoa  7 , Juan Pablo Escalera-Antezana  8 , Lucia Elena Alvarado-Arnez  9 , Alexandre Naime Barbosa  10 , Fredi Diaz-Quijano  11 , Sergio Cimerman  12 , Tânia do Socorro Souza Chaves  13 , Andrea G Rodriguez-Morales  14 , Cecilia Perret  15 , Claudio A Méndez  16 , Jorge A Riera  17 , D Katterine Bonilla-Aldana  1 , German Camacho-Moreno  18 , Henry Mendoza  19 , Ivan Arturo Rodriguez-Sabogal  20 , Jose Oñate  21 , Angel A Escobedo  22 , Monica Thormann  23 , Yori Roque  24 , Patricia Gabriela Zambrano  25 , Yenddy Carrero  26 , Nancy Sandoval  27 , Lysien Zambrano  28 , Carlos Franco-Paredes  29 , Enrique Chacon-Cruz  30 , Iván Lopez-Delgado  30 , Cesar Cuadra-Sánchez  31 , Monica Pachar-Flores  32 , Ricardo Correa  33 , Hernan D Rodriguez-Enciso  34 , Veronica Rotela-Fisch  35 , Julio Maquera-Afaray  36 , Percy Herrera-Añazco  37 , Vicente Benites-Zapata  38 , Eduardo Savio-Larriera  39 , Juan David Ramírez  40   41 , Alberto Paniz-Mondolfi  39   42 , Alejandro Risquez  43 , David A Forero-Peña  43   44 , Jaime R Torres  45 , Jose Antonio Suarez  46
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Latin America: Situation and preparedness facing the multi-country human monkeypox outbreak

Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales et al. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2022 Sep.
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Conflict of interest statement

All authors declare no competing of interest. GC-M has received an independent grant from Pfizer through the Asociación Colombiana de Infectologia ACIN- capitulo central; speaker fees from Pfizer, Sanofi Pasteur and Biomerieux; and participated in Advisory Boards for MSD and Sanofi Pasteur.

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Figure 1
Current situation of MPX in Latin America (confirmed and suspected cases), up to June 28, 2022. Data sources: https://www.ilpandacentrostudio.it/uk.html, https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/world-map.html.
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