By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Healthcare providers should consider early testing of the sexual contacts of people with mpox, regardless of whether they have experienced clear symptoms of the disease, because asymptomatic disease has been found, according to Ana Atti, MD, MSc, of the U.K. Health Security Agency, in England, who reported preliminary findings from the PRIME study at the 2024 ESCMID Global Congress (formerly ECCMID), in Barcelona, Spain.
“We should consider offering early testing of