Monkeypox Knowledge Hub

Information for health professionals

• Diagnosis of Monkeypox in the Emergency Care Data Set (ECDS) - Royal College of Emergency Medicine
• Factsheet - Monkeypox - Center for Health Security, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Factsheet for health professionals on monkeypox - European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
• Guidance - Monkeypox vaccination - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
• Immediate actions in response to cases of Monkeypox Virus in the UK with no known travel history - Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
• Mpox (monkeypox) control: UK strategy 2022 to 2023 (UKHSA)
• Monkeypox: guidance - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
• Mpox (Monkeypox) outbreak 2022 - guidance - Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
• Monkeypox outbreak in the UK [Letter] - NHS England and NHS Improvement
• Monkeypox [Factsheet] - World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Mpox (Monkeypox) virus infections - MedlinePlus
• Principles for control of non-HCID mpox in the UK: 4 nations consensus statement - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Public Health Scotland, Public Health Wales and Public Health Agency Northern Ireland

Information for patients

• Monkeypox - NHS
• Monkeypox - Patient information from BMJ Best Practice
• ​​What is monkeypox and how do you catch it? - BBC News

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Evidence summaries

• Treatment and prevention of Mpox (Monkeypox) - UpToDate
• Mpox (Monkeypox) - StatPearls / National Library of Medicine (NLM)
• Mpox (Monkeypox): background information - UK Health Security Agency
• Mpox (Monkeypox) [Health Topics] - World Health Organisation (WHO)
• Orthopoxvirus Infections (including Smallpox and Monkeypox) - DynaMed
• Orthopoxvirus Infections (Including Smallpox and Mpox) - BMJ Best Practice

Statistics & data

• ​​Mpox (Monkeypox) - Our World in Data - Oxford Martin School 
• Monkeypox cases confirmed in England – latest updates - ​UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)