Anil T. Mangla

TL;DR: Clinicians should test patients with rash consistent with monkeypox,† regardless of whether the rash is disseminated or was preceded by prodrome, and public health efforts should prioritize gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, who are currently disproportionately affected for prevention and testing.

TL;DR: It is important that public health officials leverage systems for delivering HIV and STI care and prevention to reduce monkeypox incidence in this population and consideration should be given to prioritizing persons with HIV infection and STIs for vaccination against monkeypox.

TL;DR: This report describes two cases of encephalomyelitis in patients with monkeypox disease that occurred during the current U.S. outbreak, and suggests that neurologic complications of acute MPXV infections are rare.

TL;DR: In this paper , a total of 25,038 monkeypox cases were reported in the United States, primarily among adult gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, accounting for 0.3% of reported cases.

TL;DR: This report describes three patients who had atypical rashes and no epidemiologic link to a monkeypox case or known risk factors and received diagnoses of monkeypox based on late cycle threshold values ≥34, which were false-positive test results.