The infected person exposed 17 people at 2 group homes to the disease.
The test the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses to identify clade I mpox cases is 'most likely not reliable' for detection of the substrain identified in the study, the authors say.
Another mpox study today showed that dose-sparing vaccine administration of the Jynneos vaccine appeared to have worked.
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The 3 recent cases are unrelated, but the fact that all 3 people had not traveled internationally indicates that local person-to-person spread is likely.
The county announced the detection yesterday, and it involves an adult with no recent travel to mpox-endemic areas.
The clade 1 case is the nation's first in a person with no recent travel history and the seventh clade 1 case in the country.
Rift Valley fever cases are rising in both people and animals in Senegal and Mauritania.
Whooping cough cases in Florida have risen by 81% this year compared with 2024.
The immune response in children aged 2 to 11 years was non-inferior to that observed in adults, and 2.5-times greater in children aged 2 to 5.
Africa CDC also notes cholera surges in Chad, Burundi, and Angola, along with hopeful signs in the DR Congo's Ebola outbreak.
The vaccine campaign targeting almost 2 million people in Darfur region faces daunting access and transportation challenges amid ongoing conflict.
A larger proportion of patients with protracted cases were hospitalized than those with shorter infections (26% vs 5%).
Meanwhile, in cholera developments, the Africa CDC reports sharp rises in illnesses in Chad and the Republic of Congo.
