Volume 29, Number 2—February 2023
Research Letter
Occupational Monkeypox Virus Transmission to Healthcare Worker, California, USA, 2022
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![Timeline of symptom onset, testing, treatment, and public health interventions in response to a case of occupationally acquired mpox in an HCW, California, USA, 2022. Patients A and B were treated by the HCW during the presumed incubation period of her infection; however, course of illness for patient A is not shown because the HCW’s contact with patient A was >21 days before symptom onset. HCW, healthcare worker; LACDPH, Los Angeles County (California) Department of Public Health.](/eid/images/22-1750-F2.jpg)
Figure 2. Timeline of symptom onset, testing, treatment, and public health interventions in response to a case of occupationally acquired mpox in an HCW, California, USA, 2022. Patients A and B were treated by the HCW during the presumed incubation period of her infection; however, course of illness for patient A is not shown because the HCW’s contact with patient A was >21 days before symptom onset. HCW, healthcare worker; LACDPH, Los Angeles County (California) Department of Public Health.
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