Official Plans for Dealing with the Possible Outbreak of Monkeypox in Iran (First detected case in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz)

Document Type : Letter

Authors

1 Emergency Department, Hunter New England Local Health District, Cambridge, United Kingdom

2 Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Faculty of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Letter to the Editor

Highlights

34-year-old woman is Iran's first monkeypox case- August 16, 2022

Keywords


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Volume 1, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
August 2022
Pages 166-167
  • Receive Date: 10 August 2022
  • Revise Date: 12 August 2022
  • Accept Date: 15 August 2022
  • First Publish Date: 15 August 2022