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Moneypox Risk Factors

Clinical characteristics of human monkeypox are the focus of review

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 12th, 2006

Scientists review the clinical characteristics of human monkeypox and risk factors for severe disease in a recent issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Researchers in the United States report, "Human monkeypox is an emerging smallpox-like illness that was identified for the first time in the United States during an outbreak in 2003. Knowledge of the clinical manifestations of monkeypox in adults is limited, and clinical laboratory findings have been unknown."

"Demographic information, medical history, smallpox vaccination status, signs, symptoms, and duration of illness, and laboratory results (hematologic and serum chemistry findings) were...

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