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Comment
. 2022 Oct:106:106943.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2022.106943. Epub 2022 Sep 22.

The impact of monkeypox outbreak on mental health and counteracting strategies: A call to action

Sirwan Khalid Ahmed  1 , Salar Omar Abdulqadir  2 , Safin Hassan Hussein  3 , Rukhsar Muhammad Omar  2 , Nabaz Ali Ahmed  4 , Rawand Abdulrahman Essa  5 , Kuldeep Dhama  6 , Jose M Lorenzo  7 , Araz Qadir Abdulla  8
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The impact of monkeypox outbreak on mental health and counteracting strategies: A call to action

Sirwan Khalid Ahmed et al. Int J Surg. 2022 Oct.
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Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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  • Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK.
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