Our clinical staff are trained and fully prepared to identify any patient presenting with signs and symptoms consistent with monkeypox infection. Our team of healthcare professionals will follow guidelines that are established as best practices by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Department of Public Health (DPH), and will assist in connecting any patient suspected of having monkeypox with treatment options.
Students presenting to UNG Student Health Services with a history of contact with known Monkeypox or have symptoms of Monkeypox will be evaluated by a clinic advanced practitioner. The clinic will have the capability of sample collection from a suspected lesion. The clinic staff will limit movement of a possible infected person within the clinic.
Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. Monkeypox virus is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, the virus that causes smallpox. Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder, and monkeypox is rarely fatal. Monkeypox is not related to chickenpox.