First Locally Acquired US Case of Severe Mpox Strain Identified in California

The city is working closely with officials from the CDC to deal with the issue.

An undated colorized transmission electron micrograph of mpox virus particles (pink) found within an infected cell (yellow), cultured in the laboratory, captured at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Md. NIAID/Handout via Reuters

A resident from Long Beach, California, has been confirmed as the first locally acquired U.S. case of clade 1 mpox (previously known as monkeypox), the Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement on Oct. 14.

This is the “seventh case nationally and the first without known travel,” the department said.