Science & Medicine Mpox has faded as a health crisis in the U.S. California leads with 5,759 cases, according to the latest available data from the CDC. The United States has recorded nearly 31,000 cases and 42 deaths over the last year. There have been more than 87,000 global cases in 111 countries with 140 deaths reported to the WHO in the last year.

The current outbreak of mpox is the largest and most geographically widespread since the virus was discovered in 1958. “We are in that place where we are going to expect seeing clusters, but we have our mission, which is to vaccinate people so we can make sure that we prevent them,” Daskalakis told The Times. Demetre Daskalakis, deputy coordinator for the national mpox response at the White House.Īmong other things, his office is moving quickly to ensure that local health departments have the resources to deal with new cases.

We have a vaccine mission that is not complete yet,” said Dr. “Definitely what we are seeing in Chicago is a reminder that. In Los Angeles County, for example, weekly vaccinations dropped from 8,000 last year to about 100-150 in recent months, officials said.īut Biden administration officials said Tuesday they were not letting down their guard, particularly amid the recent uptick in cases in some places. The decline in cases over the last year has led to a sharp drop in vaccinations. On May 11, the World Health Organization declared the mpox global health emergency over, a year after the virus spread beyond its endemic regions.

Mpox cases have fallen in California, but health officials are pushing for more vulnerable people to be vaccinated, including those in the LGBTQ+ community, ahead of summer. California After mpox outbreak, vaccinations plummeted.

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