Adding New Fuel to the Fire: Monkeypox in the Time of COVID-19-Implications for Health Care Personnel

Ann Intern Med. 2022 Aug;175(8):1183-1184. doi: 10.7326/M22-1763. Epub 2022 Jun 14.

Abstract

Monkeypox virus is reemerging, with cases reported on every inhabited continent at a time when clinical and public health resources have been stretched to the limit by COVID-19. As the monkeypox outbreak grows, health care workers must understand the threat and be prepared to address an infectious disease risk that may herald yet another unprecedented epidemic.

Publication types

  • Editorial

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19*
  • Conservation of Natural Resources
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Personnel
  • Humans
  • Mpox (monkeypox)*