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Volume 29, Number 5—May 2023
Dispatch

Case Report and Literature Review of Occupational Transmission of Monkeypox Virus to Healthcare Workers, South Korea

Yunsang Choi, Eun-bi Jeon, Taeyoung Kim, Seong Jin Choi, Song Mi Moon, Kyoung-Ho Song, Hong Bin Kim, and Eu Suk KimComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, South Korea (Y. Choi, E.-b. Jeon, S.J. Choi, S.M. Moon, K.-H. Song, H.B. Kim, E.S. Kim); Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (Y. Choi, S.J. Choi, S.M. Moon, K.-H. Song, H.B. Kim, E.S. Kim); Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, Cheongju, South Korea (T. Kim)

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Progression of skin lesion caused by occupational transmission of monkeypox virus to a healthcare worker in South Korea. The healthcare worker was infected in the left index finger with monkeypox virus after a needlestick from a 26G needle during aspiration of an infected patient’s vesicle. Photographs show the lesion at the inoculation site from onset to recovery. A) Day 1 (November 17, 2022); B) day 6; C) day 8; d) day 18; E) day 22; F) day 25; G) day 34; H) day 40.

Figure. Progression of skin lesion caused by occupational transmission of monkeypox virus to a healthcare worker in South Korea. The healthcare worker was infected in the left index finger with monkeypox virus after a needlestick from a 26G needle during aspiration of an infected patient’s vesicle. Photographs show the lesion at the inoculation site from onset to recovery. A) Day 1 (November 17, 2022); B) day 6; C) day 8; d) day 18; E) day 22; F) day 25; G) day 34; H) day 40.

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