Health Care Personnel Exposures to Subsequently Laboratory-Confirmed Monkeypox Patients — Colorado, 2022

Monkeypox

“… 23 The risk of transmission during the 2022 outbreak has been low, with only a small number of transmission events reported after exposure to fomites or needlestick injuries. 83 , 84 , 95 , 96 …”

Nosocomial transmission of MPOX virus to health care workers –an emerging occupational hazard: A case report and review of the literature

“…The possibility of MPOX nosocomial transmission to health care providers (HCP) in nonendemic areas was recently evaluated by Zachary et al 6 who performed a systemic review of literature and concluded that the risk of transmission following exposure in well-resourced healthcare settings was low, with only one published case of such transmission in 2018 in the United Kingdom. 7 Furthermore, Marshall et al 8 analyzed the risk of infection during the current outbreak among exposed HCPs and similarly found a very low risk of transmission, even with incomplete adherence to recommended personal protective equipment (PPE).…”

Frequently Asked Questions about Mpox (Formerly Monkeypox Disease) for Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Recipients from the American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

“…Reports of transmission from a patient to a healthcare worker are exceedingly rare 3 , 19 . In a recent investigation of >300 healthcare workers with variable exposure to mpox infected patients and PPE utilization, no patient-to-healthcare worker transmission events occurred during a three-week follow-up period 40 . This is reassuring that the risk of healthcare transmission of mpox is likely low.…”