Emerging Infectious Diseases (Apr 2023)

Mpox in Young Woman with No Epidemiologic Risk Factors, Massachusetts, USA

  • Mark J. Siedner,
  • John Trinidad,
  • Cesar G. Berto,
  • Catherine M. Brown,
  • Lawrence C. Madoff,
  • Ellen H. Lee,
  • Maryam Iqbal,
  • Olivia Samson,
  • John Albin,
  • Sarah E. Turbett,
  • Olivia Davies,
  • Daniela Kroshinsky,
  • David Hooper,
  • Elizabeth Hohmann,
  • Kevin Ard,
  • Erica S. Shenoy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3201/eid2904.221921
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 29, no. 4
pp. 846 – 848

Abstract

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We describe a case of mpox characterized by a circularly distributed facial rash but no identified risk factors. Fomite transmission of monkeypox virus from contaminated linen at a massage spa was suspected. Clinicians should consider mpox in patients with consistent clinical syndromes, even in the absence of epidemiologic risk factors.

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