Mpox: prisons and places of detention
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Public health advice for managing cases of mpox in prisons and other prescribed places of detention.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Public health advice for managing cases of mpox in prisons and other prescribed places of detention. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Who this guidance is for
- Mpox: background
- How mpox spreads
- Identifying cases and contacts
- Reception screening
- Presentation with symptoms at reception or within the PPD
- Presentation within the PPD setting about concerns of close contact with a case
- Management of cases in the PPD setting
- Testing of suspected cases
- Notification of confirmed cases of mpox
- Isolation of cases
- Infection prevention and control (IPC) measures for cases
- Management of contacts
- Contact tracing
- Public health measures for contacts
- IPC measures for contacts
Source and licence
UK Health Security Agency
AttributionUK Health Security Agency, ‘Mpox: prisons and places of detention’ (updated 15 May 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.
Version history
- v1.017/09/2026