Monkeypox in a Traveler Returning from Nigeria — Dallas, Texas, July 2021
2022; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Volume: 71; Issue: 14 Linguagem: Inglês
10.15585/mmwr.mm7114a1
ISSN1545-861X
AutoresAgam K. Rao, Joann Schulte, Tai-Ho Chen, Christine M. Hughes, Whitni Davidson, Justin M. Neff, Mary Markarian, Kristin Delea, Suzanne Wada, Allison M. Liddell, Shane Alexander, Brittany Sunshine, Philip C. C. Huang, Heidi Threadgill Honza, Araceli Rey, Benjamin Monroe, Jeffrey B. Doty, Bryan Christensen, Lisa J. Delaney, Joel Massey, Michelle A. Waltenburg, Caroline A. Schrodt, David Kuhar, Panayampalli S. Satheshkumar, Ashley V. Kondas, Yu Li, Kimberly Wilkins, Kylie M. Sage, Yon Yu, Patricia Yu, Amanda Feldpausch, Jennifer H. McQuiston, Inger K. Damon, Andrea M. McCollum, Asma’u Aminu-Alhaji, Lauren M. Andersen, Matthew J. Arduino, Nicolette Bestul, Megan Bias, Mary J. Choi, Crystal M. Gigante, Madison Harkey, Kate Hendricks, Yonette Hercules, Farah Husain, Oladipupo Ipadeola, Robynne Jungerman, Theodora Khan, Grishma A. Kharod, Amber Kunkel, Amanda MacGurn, Audrey Matheny, Timothy McCleod, Faisal S. Minhaj, Jenna Mink, Clint N. Morgan, Yoshinori Nakazawa, Donovan Newton, Eddy Ortega, Lalita Priyamvada, Kay Radford, Joseph Rehfus, Muhammad Muhammad Saleh, Michael B. Townsend, Rita M. Traxler, Florence Whitehill, Xianfu Wu, Hui Zhao, Michelle Carruthers, Ivory Gomez, Samantha Groppell, Juan Jaramillo, Daniel Serinaldi, J.L. Serrano, Joey Stringer, Jenna R. Gettings, Jessica Pavlick, José David Retana, Shelley Stonecipher, Rachael Straver, Inger-Marie E. Vilcins, Leisha D. Nolen,
Tópico(s)Herpesvirus Infections and Treatments
ResumoResponse TeamMonkeypox is a rare, sometimes life-threatening zoonotic infection that occurs in west and central Africa.It is caused by Monkeypox virus, an orthopoxvirus similar to Variola virus (the causative agent of smallpox) and Vaccinia virus (the live virus component of orthopoxvirus vaccines) and can spread to humans.After 39 years without detection of human disease in Nigeria, an outbreak involving 118 confirmed cases was identified during 2017-2018 (1); sporadic cases continue to occur.During September 2018-May 2021, six unrelated persons traveling from Nigeria received diagnoses of monkeypox in non-African countries: four in the United Kingdom and one each in Israel and Singapore.In July 2021, a man who traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, to Dallas, Texas, became the seventh traveler to a non-African country with diagnosed monkeypox.Among 194 monitored contacts, 144 (74%) were flight contacts.The patient received tecovirimat, an antiviral for treatment of orthopoxvirus infections, and his home required large-scale decontamination.Whole genome sequencing showed that the virus was consistent with a strain of Monkeypox virus known to circulate in Nigeria, but the specific source of the patient's infection was not identified.No epidemiologically linked cases were reported in Nigeria; no contact received postexposure prophylaxis (PEP) with the orthopoxvirus vaccine ACAM2000.† https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/nigeria?s_cid%20 =%20ncezid-dgmq-travel-single-001
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