The risk of reverse zoonotic transmission to pet animals during the current global monkeypox outbreak, United Kingdom, June to mid-September 2022
Wendi Shepherd, Philippa M. Beard, Sharon M. Brookes, Andrew Frost, Helen Clare Roberts, Katherine Russell, Steve Wyllie
Abstract
We report results of surveillance between June and mid-September 2022 of pet animals living in households of confirmed human monkeypox (MPX) cases. Since surveillance commenced, 154 animals from 40 households with a confirmed human MPX case were reported to the United Kingdom Animal and Plant Health Agency. No animals with clinical signs of MPX were identified. While a risk of transmission exists to pets from owners with a confirmed MPX virus infection, we assess this risk to be low.
Topics & Concepts
MonkeypoxOutbreakTransmission (telecommunications)Zoonotic diseaseEnvironmental healthVeterinary medicineMedicineGeographyVirologyBiologyPathologyDiseaseBiochemistryRecombinant DNAEngineeringElectrical engineeringGeneVacciniaPoxvirus research and outbreaksHerpesvirus Infections and TreatmentsBacillus and Francisella bacterial research