The possible effect of sociobehavioral factors and public health actions on the mpox epidemic slowdown.
Epidemic
Outbreak
Public health
Vaccination
mpox
Journal
International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases
ISSN: 1878-3511
Titre abrégé: Int J Infect Dis
Pays: Canada
ID NLM: 9610933
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
May 2023
May 2023
Historique:
received:
18
11
2022
revised:
16
02
2023
accepted:
03
03
2023
medline:
11
4
2023
pubmed:
12
3
2023
entrez:
11
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A pre-exposure vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of the mpox virus was initiated in Italy in August 2022. We explore the possible factors affecting the trend of mpox cases in an Italian region (Lazio) with a rapid roll-out of the vaccination campaign. We estimated the impact of the communication and vaccination campaign by fitting a Poisson segmented regression model. Results By September 30, 2692, high-risk men who have sex with men had received at least one dose of vaccine, with a vaccination coverage of 37%. The analysis of surveillance data showed a significant decreasing trend in the number of mpox cases starting from the second week after vaccination (incidence rate ratio 0.452 [0.331-0.618]). The reported trend in mpox cases is likely to result from a combination of multiple social and public health factors combined with a vaccination campaign.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36906119
pii: S1201-9712(23)00081-4
doi: 10.1016/j.ijid.2023.03.005
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
83-85Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors have no competing interests to declare.