We are writing to you in follow-up to our recent alert about the surge in mpox transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). There have been more than 13,000 suspected and confirmed cases with nearly every province of the country affected. The US CDC released a Health Alert Network advisory about this on 7 December: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han00501.asp
Mpox surveillance in anyone who has recently been in the DRC is a very high priority for GeoSentinel as well as the US CDC. This is an important opportunity to showcase the global surveillance capacity of our network. We need to rapidly identify early travel-associated cases of mpox clade 1 in order to help inform epidemiology of the disease. If you see a patient with mpox that might be associated with the DRC outbreak, please alert the GeoSentinel OPI by email or by entering the case into the GeoSentinel database. If your site has a laboratory-confirmed case of mpox from the DRC and sequencing cannot be done locally, we can facilitate specimen transfer and sequencing at the CDC Poxvirus Branch.
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We are writing to you in follow-up to our recent alert about the surge in mpox transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). There have been more than 13,000 suspected and confirmed cases with nearly every province of the country affected. The US CDC released a Health Alert Network advisory about this on 7 December: https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han00501.asp
Mpox surveillance in anyone who has recently been in the DRC is a very high priority for GeoSentinel as well as the US CDC. This is an important opportunity to showcase the global surveillance capacity of our network. We need to rapidly identify early travel-associated cases of mpox clade 1 in order to help inform epidemiology of the disease. If you see a patient with mpox that might be associated with the DRC outbreak, please alert the GeoSentinel OPI by email or by entering the case into the GeoSentinel database. If your site has a laboratory-confirmed case of mpox from the DRC and sequencing cannot be done locally, we can facilitate specimen transfer and sequencing at the CDC Poxvirus Branch.