Testing for monkeypox, a crucial part of containing the growing outbreak, has gotten off to a sluggish start at the five commercial laboratories that are doing nearly all of the nation’s test…
and other medical journals have also offered information about how to diagnose, test for and treat monkeypox.
But even with that education, it can be difficult to detect a case of monkeypox, in part because the rash isn’t always distinctive, Caveney said.Because monkeypox is spread by prolonged skin-to-skin contact, the doctor also has to get a detailed and thorough history from their patient. “They might think, ‘I’m going to identify myself as someone who is frowned on in society: I have sex with men, I have multiple sex partners, or I didn’t use protection.’ That’s what having monkeypox says now, and you can imagine people don’t want to say all that,” said Chin-Hong, an infectious disease expert at UCSF School of Medicine who has treated people with monkeypox.
He said that about half of the clinics in his organization don’t send specimens to private labs because it’s too expensive to hire staff to manage the paperwork, which might help explain why the volume of monkeypox tests at private labs has been so low.
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