Last updated on the date given in the title. Anything added on that date is labelled NEW.
Because of the rise in cases of Mpox, and the resulting declaration by the WHO of a "public health emergency of international concern", this is an updated list based on one made in 2022/23, in a new post to make it more visible.
List divided (for now) into:
- Point of care resources
- NEW - travel health
- UK information (including NHS and UKHSA)
- Worldwide information and information from outside the UK
- Sources of genetic sequence data
- A link to PubMed to get a list of articles
- Other resources (that is, things which don't fit anywhere else!)
- Resources in French / informations en francais
Note: The disease is officially called Mpox but some resources may still use the term monkeypox. The virus itself is still officially named monkeypox virus.
Point of care resources
BMJ Best Practice entry on mpox, free access to this information.
NEW - Travel health
Clinical and disease outbreak resources - UK
Message from UK Health Security Agency to all health providers about Clade 1 mpox virus infection, dated 15th August 2024
UK Health Security Agency Monkeypox outbreak: epidemiological overview. About the situation in the UK, updated on 8th August 2024.
UK Health Security Agency - background information including epidemiology, symptoms, diagnosis and management. Last updated 19th August 2024.
The UKHSA response to the World Health Organization's declaration of a public health emergency of international concern, 15th August 2024.
UK Health Security Agency HAIRS risk assessment (risk that mammalian pets exposed to the virus present to the human population)
UK Health Security Agency - information on the status of mpox as a high consequence infectious disease (HCID)
NHS Health A-Z
NHS Inform (NHS Scotland). Turas, NHS Education for Scotland's learning platform has several things about vaccination*.
Public Health Wales - mpox information for health professionals (in English)
Iechyd Cyhoeddus Cymru - mpox gwybodaeth i weithwyr iechyd proffesiynol (yn Gymraeg)
Welsh Medicines Advisory Service Mpox information for healthcare professionals* (Click Cymraeg in the top right of the screen to have the information in Welsh, same link)
NI Direct - Monkeypox
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency - CAS Alert - immediate actions in response to cases in the UK with no known travel history. Dated May 2022, I can see nothing newer.
Royal College of Nursing - podcast on how nurses can spot and treat it, and protect themselves. Made in July 2022.
* Perplexity found the asterisked items - prompt was "resources for health professionals about mpox", and follow up prompt "are there any resources from the NHS in the UK"
Worldwide information - outside the UK (= mainland Europe, USA, WHO, global)
WHO Mpox page - includes disease outbreak outputs and details of which countries have reported cases.
WHO general fact sheet - available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish.
WHO outbreak information
WHO - interim guidance on laboratory testing for the virus, dated 10th May 2024.
For current case data, try ProMED (search mpox for newer reports, monkeypox for older ones).
Africa CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) - an African Union organisation. Translation available into Arabic, Chinese, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control - includes fact sheet for health professionals, links to news items and to communicable disease reports.
Medbox – online library to improve quality of healthcare in humanitarian action.
MedlinePlus resource page (links to US resources)
NEW - Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM), Mpox (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). Ook in Nederlands.
NEW - UNICEF Mpox and children
Genetic sequence data
NCBI Insights item about access to Mpox data through NCBI Virus (dated 21st August 2024)
Entry in NCBI Taxonomy dataset, with links to information in the NCBI MPXV Data Hub (click "Browse all genomes in NCBI Virus").
MPXV data on virological.org (more here about the forum itself).
Africa CDC (Centres for Disease Control and Prevention) - an African Union organisation. Translation available into other languages including French.
