Smallpox Presentation

Monkeypox: Public Health Significance

• Center for Food Security and Public Health Iowa State University - 2004

• 2003 U.S. Outbreak
• Zoonotic disease
• 6 Midwestern states
• Animal illness
• Suspect cases: 93
• Confirmed cases: 10
• Human illness
• Suspect cases: 72
• Confirmed cases: 37
• All had contact with infected prairie dogs
• Potential bioweapon

Monkeypox: The Response

• Center for Food Security and Public Health Iowa State University - 2004

• Treatment: supportive care
• Smallpox vaccination
• Moderately protective (85% of cases)
• 30 individuals in 2003, no adverse events
• Infection Control
• EPA registered detergent disinfectant
• 0.5% sodium hypochlorite (bleach)
• Embargo
• Euthanasia of animals
• Quarantine for 6 weeks

Additional Resources

• Center for Food Security and Public Health Iowa State University - 2004

• CDC smallpox information
• emergency.cdc.gov/agent/smallpox/
• WHO slide set
• www.who.int/csr/disease/smallpox/preparedness/en/
• Textbook of Military Medicine
• www.cs.amedd.army.mil/borden/Portlet.aspx?ID=66cffe45-c1b8-4453-91e0-9275007fd157

Acknowledgments

• Center for Food Security and Public Health Iowa State University - 2004

• Development of this presentation was funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Center for Food Security and Public Health at Iowa State University.

Acknowledgments

• Center for Food Security and Public Health Iowa State University - 2004

• Author:
• Co-author:
• Reviewer:

• Radford Davis, DVM, MPH
• Danelle Bickett-Weddle, DVM, MPH
• Jean Gladon, BS