Monkeypox caused less worry than COVID-19 among the general population during the first month of the WHO Monkeypox alert: Experience from Saudi Arabia.

Almost half of our cohort had developed COVID-19 already at the time of the survey, and the majority had a minor disease, even though they had significantly higher worry levels from Monkeypox disease compared to COVID-19, that high worry level can be understood considering the high rates of PTSD, higher perceived life threat and anxiety in COVID-19 survivors [ 21 , 30 , 31 ], while those who had self and family worry from contracting Monkeypox infection had only slight high worry levels from Monkeypox that did not reach statistical significance. 4.1.

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