Mpox (Monkeypox) outbreak toolbox
Updated | February 2025
Welcome to the Mpox (Monkeypox) outbreak toolbox
Key reference documents
Data collection tools
- Case report form: Word
- Case investigation form: PDF
- Mpox Linelist: Excel
- Electronic tools: XLSForm (KoboToolbox, ODK Collect, Survey123 for ArcGIS, CommCare SurveyCTO, among others), Godata website
Laboratory confirmation
Response tools and resources
- Interim guidance on strengthening community detection and response during the mpox outbreak: February 2025
- Surveillance, case investigation and contact tracing for Mpox, Interim guidance (Geneva; World Health Organization, 20 March 2024).
- Clinical Management and Infection Prevention and Control for Monkeypox: Interim rapid response guidance (Geneva, World Health Organization, 10 June 2022).
- Smallpox and mpox (orthopoxviruses): WHO position paper, August 2024.
- Updated vaccination advice for outbreak response.
- MVA-BN (Modified Vaccinia Ankara – Bavarian Nordic) Smallpox and mpox vaccine: interim guidance, November 2024
- Infection prevention and control and water, sanitation and hygiene measures for home care and isolation for mpox in resource-limited settings: interim operational guide 2025.
- LC16m8 (live-attenuated freeze-dried vaccinia) smallpox and mpox vaccine: interim guidance, April 2025
Training
English
- Mpox and the 2022-2023 global outbreak (Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020).
- Mpox: Introduction for African outbreak contexts (Geneva: World Health Organization; 2020).
- Mpox epidemiology, preparedness and response for African outbreak contexts: Open WHO course. (Geneva: World Health Organisation; 2020).
- Mpox and the 2022-2023 global outbreak.
Français
- Variole du singe : Cours d'introduction aux contextes d'épidémies en Afrique (Geneva: World Health Organization 2020).
- Variole du singe : Épidémiologie, préparation et réponse aux contextes d'épidémies en Afrique (Geneva: Organisation Mondiale de la Santé ; 2022).
- La variole simienne et l’épidémie mondiale de 2022-2023.
Other resources
- Considerations for wastewater and environmental surveillance for monkeypox virus: Interim guidance 2024
- WHO’s Science in 5: Mpox (Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022)
- Managing epidemics: Key facts about major deadly diseases (page 170) (Geneva: World Health Organization; 2018). Soon updated.
- Emergence of mpox in West Africa and Central Africa, 1970–2017. Weekly Epidemiological Record No. 11, 16 March 2018.
- How to achieve and sustain high uptake of mpox vaccination in outbreak settings
Public health advice
- Public Health Advice on protecting yourself and others from mpox
- Public Health Advice for men who have sex with men on preventing mpox
- Public Health Advice for gatherings during the mpox outbreak
- Public Health Advice for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men on mpox
- Public Health Advice on mpox and sex-on-premises venues and events
- Public Health Advice for sex workers on mpox
- Public Health Advice on understanding, preventing and addressing stigma and discrimination related to mpox
- Public health advice on mpox and congregate settings: settings in which people live, stay or work in proximity
- Public health advice on mpox for people living in camps, refugee populations, internally displaced people and migrants
- Public health advice for people recovering from or caring for someone with mpox at home in low-resource settings