45: Talking with Your Patients About Monkeypox

07/06/2022 19 min Episodio 45
45: Talking with Your Patients About Monkeypox

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CME CREDIT IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR THIS EPISODE No, it's actually not another variant of SARS-CoV-2.  In this episode we'll learn about Monkeypox: what it is, where it originated, how it's transmitted, diagnosed, and treated.    Gerard Clancy, MD Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs Professor of Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Jeffery L Meier, MD Associate Professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Resources:  Beer EM, Rao VB (2019) A systematic review of the epidemiology of human monkeypox outbreaks and implications for outbreak strategy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 13(10): e0007791. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0007791  CDC: Monkeypox information for healthcare professionals https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/clinicians/index.html CDC: US monkeypox situation summary https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/response/2022/index.html WHO: Monkeypox information and situation summary https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/monkeypox