Sounding the alarm: Defining thresholds to trigger a public health response to monkeypox

• Sarah Anne J. Guagliardo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: sguagliardo@cdc.gov

  Affiliations Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4217-8195

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• Mary G. Reynolds,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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• Joelle Kabamba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Beata Nguete,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Robert Shongo Lushima,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Okito E. Wemakoy,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kinshasa School of Public Health, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Andrea M. McCollum

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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