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)
• Guidance for monkeypox in pregnancy - MedscapeUK
• Immediate actions in response to cases of Monkeypox Virus in the UK with no known travel history - Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)
• Management of laboratory confirmed monkeypox infections -NHS England and NHS Improvement
• Monkeypox - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
• Monkeypox - information for primary care - Public Health England (PHE)
• Monkeypox: guidance - UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
• 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)
• Monkeypox virus infections - MedlinePlus
• Principles for monkeypox control 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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Monkeypox literature digest

The UK Health Security Agency produce a weekly digest of the recent key literature on monkeypox. It is uploaded each Friday morning. Access the current issue and back issues below.

Monkeypox literature digest

Evidence summaries

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

Statistics & data

• ​BNO Newsroom – Case tracker - ​BNO News
• Monkeypox - Our World in Data - Oxford Martin School 
• Monkeypox cases confirmed in England – latest updates - ​UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA)
• Monkeypox Tracker - Global Health: a Data Science Initiative / HealthMap
• Monkeypox Tracker - www.monkeypox.site