Former CDC Official on New Mpox Cases and Current Federal Resources

Former CDC official on new mpox cases and current federal resources

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care   THE HILL INTERVIEW Former CDC official on new mpox cases and current federal resources  Demetre Daskalakis, former executive and principal at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Human Rights Campaign’s Senior Public Policy Advocate Matthew Rose spoke…

What public health experts want you to know about the severe mpox strain appearing in the U.S.

A more severe strain of mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, has quietly appeared in California, and for the first time, the infections weren’t brought here by travelers. For the nation’s LGBTQ+ communities, the news is unsettling not only because of what it says about the virus, but also because of what it reveals about a public health system in crisis. The strain began to spread in the spring of 2024 in people who had traveled outside the United…

CDC says 3 cases of severe mpox in California may be linked to August case

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an advisory Oct. 29 on three unrelated cases of clade I mpox recently identified in California. The agency said that viral genomic data suggested the cases are likely part of the same cluster and may be linked to a case from August with recent travel to an area with clade I mpox spread. The CDC said there is high suspicion of community spread since the three September cases had no history o…