LA County Health Dept., CDC Confirm County’s First Monkeypox Death

Test tube labelled "Monkeypox virus positive" in a photo illustration taken on May 22, 2022. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed Sept. 12 the first death due to monkeypox in a county resident.

The person “was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized,” the health department said in a statement Monday.