Emerging Infectious Diseases (Sep 2022)

Epidemiologic Features and Control Measures during Monkeypox Outbreak, Spain, June 2022

  • Berta Suárez Rodríguez,
  • Bernardo R. Guzmán Herrador,
  • Asunción Díaz Franco,
  • María Paz Sánchez-Seco Fariñas,
  • Julia del Amo Valero,
  • Adrián Hugo Aginagalde Llorente,
  • Juan Pablo Alonso Pérez de Agreda,
  • Rosa Carbó Malonda,
  • Daniel Castrillejo,
  • María Dolores Chirlaque López,
  • Eduardo Javier Chong Chong,
  • Sonia Fernández Balbuena,
  • Virtudes Gallardo García,
  • Manuel García-Cenoz,
  • Laura García Hernández,
  • Elisa Gil Montalbán,
  • Fernando González Carril,
  • Teresa González Cortijo,
  • Susana Jiménez Bueno,
  • Aurora Limia Sánchez,
  • Juan Antonio Linares Dópido,
  • Nicola Lorusso,
  • Mario Margolles Martins,
  • Eva María Martínez Ochoa,
  • Ana Martínez Mateo,
  • Jacobo Mendioroz Peña,
  • Ana Isabel Negredo Antón,
  • María Teresa Otero Barrós,
  • Maria del Carmen Pacheco Martinez,
  • Pilar Peces Jiménez,
  • Oscar-Guillermo Pérez Martín,
  • Ana Isabel Rivas Pérez,
  • María Sastre García,
  • National Monkeypox Response Group,
  • Fernando Simón Soria,
  • María José Sierra Moros

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2809.221051
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 9
pp. 1847 – 1851

Abstract

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During June 2022, Spain was one of the countries most affected worldwide by a multicountry monkeypox outbreak with chains of transmission without identified links to disease-endemic countries. We provide epidemiologic features of cases reported in Spain and the coordinated measures taken to respond to this outbreak.

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