The report comes just shy of one month since the CDC released a health alert May 15 detailing the risk of mpox infection resurgence throughout the U.S. this summer.
Here are six other recent mpox updates you may have missed:
- Between April 17 – May 5, 2023, the Chicago Department of Public Health identified 12 cases of mpox infections.
- Stanford Medicine developed an AI-powered app to identify skin lesions via photos caused by mpox infections.
- A California physician caught the virus after working with two infected patients in a rare case of virus transfer without a needle-stick incident.
- Moderna may test its mpox vaccine on humans as soon as this summer.
- The CDC released data confirming the effectiveness of the Jynneos vaccine for mpox and noted that two doses results in 88 percent protection from the virus.
- In total, the U.S. has reported 42 deaths and more than 30,468 cases since the mpox outbreak started in 2022. California and Texas have reported the most cases.
