• Monkeypox Case Definitions | Monkeypox | CDC (September 12, 2024)
• Monkeypox in Animals and Pets
• Previous human case definition (prior to August 1, 2022)

• Notifying DSHS of Monkeypox-Positive Cases and Submitting Specimens to DSHS Laboratory for Sequencing
  (June 2024)
• DSHS Monkeypox Laboratory Testing Guidance for Animal Clinical Specimens
• (April 2023)
• DSHS Monkeypox Laboratory Testing Guidance for Human Clinical Specimens
  (April 2023)

• DSHS Patient Under Investigation Form: For use by health departments while investigating a suspected monkeypox case (April 2023)
• CDC Monkeypox Case Investigation Form: For use by health departments to report completed investigations for confirmed and probable monkeypox cases to DSHS (April 2023)

• Monkeypox Guidance (April 2023)
• Monkeypox Exposure Risk Assessment Form (April 2023)

• Monkeypox Data Entry Guide (August 2022)

Monkeypox is a reportable condition in Texas. Because of the differences between clade I and clade II monkeypox virus, additional clarification is provided below on the reporting requirements for probable and confirmed cases of monkeypox, as well as guidance for suspected cases.

Suspected Cases

• Suspected cases of clade I monkeypox should be immediately reported to the appropriate local or regional health department in which the patient resides to consider testing for clade I monkeypox virus.
  • Clade I monkeypox should be suspected in a patient with clinically compatible illness that, within the past 21 days, traveled to a country with ongoing human-to-human transmission of clade I monkeypox or reported close or intimate in-person contact with a clade I monkeypox case.
• Suspected cases of clade II monkeypox should be reported within 1 week.

Probable and Confirmed Cases

• Probable and confirmed cases of clade I monkeypox should be immediately reported to the appropriate local or regional health department.
• Probable and confirmed cases of clade II monkeypox should be reported within 1 week.