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CDC Health Update: Monkeypox in People with HIV, Children and Adolescents, and People who are Pregnant or Breastfeeding

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a health update to alert clinicians that the CDC has issued clinical considerations for preventing, diagnosing, and managing monkeypox in people with HIVchildren and adolescents, and people who are pregnant or breastfeeding. On Friday July 22, CDC reported the first two cases of monkeypox in children in the United States during the current outbreak. 

Please read the CDC Health Update online.

If you have a patient in LA County who has tested positive for monkeypox, please report the case.

 

DPH Monkeypox Webpage for Providers

DPH Monkeypox Webpage for the Public

 
 
 
 
 

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