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Monkey pox — a serious threat or not, and what about EMS?
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Affiliations- Research Unit, Polish Society of Disaster Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
- Post-graduate School of Occupational Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
- Health Service Department, Italian State Police, Milan, Italy
- School of Medicine, International European University, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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Abstract
Abstract
Keywords
monkeypox, epidemiology, EMS
About this articleTitle
Monkey pox — a serious threat or not, and what about EMS?
Journal
Disaster and Emergency Medicine Journal
Issue
Article type
Letter to the Editor
Pages
136-138
Published online
2022-06-28
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DOI
Bibliographic record
Disaster Emerg Med J 2022;7(2):136-138.
Keywords
monkeypox
epidemiology
EMS
Authors
Michal Pruc
Francesco Chirico
Ihor Navolokin
Lukasz Szarpak
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