ABOVE: An electron microscope image of monkeypox virions in a human skin sample from the 2003 outbreak
CYNTHIA S. GOLDSMITH, RUSSELL REGNERY
Update (November 18): The New York Times reports a second US case of monkeypox in a person who recently returned to Maryland from Nigeria. Health authorities say in a statement that they are following up with anyone who may have come in contact with the patient and no precautions for the general public are warranted.
Earlier this month, the US Centers for Disease Control confirmed that more than 200 people in 27 states are being monitored for monkeypox after a Dallas emergency room patient was diagnosed with the rare disease. It was the first US monkeypox case in 18 years and the first ever for Texas, reports STAT.
The individual—identified as a man by the BBC—likely contracted the virus while in Nigeria and traveled with the infection through two ...
