The CDC reports 18 confirmed monkeypox deaths worldwide in this year’s outbreak but has not yet confirmed whether the virus contributed to two U.S. deaths including one in California in peopl…
Health officials Monday confirmed California’s first death from monkeypox, but there are encouraging signs that the outbreak appears to be slowing.
of a person in the Houston area who had been infected with monkeypox and also was “severely immunocompromised.” The virus causes a painful rash of pustules across the body and spreads through contact with the sores or anything that has touched them, like bedding or towels. The World Health Organization estimates that 3-6% of cases are fatal worldwide, although a far smaller number of deaths have been confirmed — 18, according to the CDC, in nine countries: the Central African Republic, Ghana, Nigeria, Spain, Brazil, Belgium, India, Cuba and Ecuador.
The monkeypox virus is a cousin of the deadlier and more contagious smallpox virus that was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980 after a global vaccination campaign, with the last naturally occurring case in 1977 in the African country of Somalia.
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