Guidance

Monkeypox: contact tracing

Classification of contacts and follow-up advice for vaccinationnon-HCID andstrains follow-up of contacts of confirmed monkeypox cases.monkeypox.

From:
UK Health Security Agency
Published
20 May 2022
Last updated
927 AugustSeptember 2022 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Monkeypox contact tracing guidance: classification of contacts and follow-up advice for vaccinationnon-HCID andstrains follow-upof monkeypox

Ref: UKHSA publication gateway number GOV-12949 PDF, 155154 KB, 2 pages

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Details

This guidance provides principles for risk assessment and follow-up of contacts of confirmed monkeypox cases. It is intended to support risk assessment and categorisation of contacts to ensure they are offered appropriate isolationpublic advicehealth and vaccination.isolation advice.

Additional monkeypox resources are also available from the UK Health Security Agency, including information on case definitions and vaccination.

Information sheets for contacts

To be used by health professionals when providing information to contacts of confirmed monkeypox cases, information sheets are available for:

Translations

Portuguese:

Spanish:

Published 20 May 2022
Last updated 927 AugustSeptember 2022 + show all updates

  1. Updated contact tracing matrix.

  2. Updated contact information sheets for categories 2 and 3.

  3. Updated contact tracing guidance.

  4. Added Portuguese and Spanish translations of category 2 and 3 contact sheets.

  5. Updated contact tracing guidance.

  6. Removed links to category 1A and 1B contacts and symptomatic contacts.

  7. Updated contact tracing guidance.

  8. Updated contact tracing guidance.

  9. Added information sheets for contacts.

  10. Updated guidance to clarify recommendations for PEP after 14 days since last exposure.

  11. Updated matrix.

  12. Updated matrix.

  13. Added links to additional monkeypox guidance.

  14. First published.