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. 2024 Aug;45(8):1003-1005.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2024.12. Epub 2024 Mar 27.

Healthcare personnel with laboratory-confirmed mpox in California during the 2022 outbreak

Allison E Bailey  1 , Shua J Chai  1   2 , Robert E Snyder  1 , David P Bui  1   3 , Linda S Lewis  1 , Kayla Saadeh  1 , J Bradford Bertumen  1   2 , Erin Epson  1 , Jane D Siegel  1
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Healthcare personnel with laboratory-confirmed mpox in California during the 2022 outbreak

Allison E Bailey et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Aug.

Abstract

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reviewed 109 cases of healthcare personnel (HCP) with laboratory-confirmed mpox to understand transmission risk in healthcare settings. Overall, 90% of HCP with mpox had nonoccupational exposure risk factors. One occupationally acquired case was associated with sharps injury while unroofing a patient's lesion for diagnostic testing.

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