title: Update: multistate outbreak of monkeypox--Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin, 2003.
abstract: CDC and state and local health departments continue to investigate cases of monkeypox among persons who had contact with wild or exotic mammalian pets or persons with monkeypox. This report updates epidemiologic, laboratory, and smallpox vaccine use data for U.S. cases, and summarizes the laboratory-based evidence implicating imported African rodents as the probable source of the outbreak.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000829:Animals, Domestic / Q000821:virology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D016358:Contact Tracing; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois / Q000453:epidemiology; D007196:Indiana / Q000453:epidemiology; D007223:Infant; D007615:Kansas / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008923:Missouri / Q000453:epidemiology; D008993:Monkeypox virus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009820:Ohio / Q000453:epidemiology; D011213:Poxviridae Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D012589:Sciuridae / Q000821:virology; D012900:Smallpox Vaccine / Q000008:administration & dosage; D014922:Wisconsin / Q000453:epidemiology
chemical_list: D012900:Smallpox Vaccine