This electron microscopic image depicted a monkeypox virion, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Courtesy CDC/Cynthia S. Goldsmith via Public Health Image Library

San Mateo County Health is monitoring symptoms in individuals who may have been exposed to clade I mpox, following the confirmation of the first known case of this strain in the United States on Saturday, Nov. 16.

The health department’s sexually transmitted infection team received the positive test result late last week and has since launched a comprehensive contact investigation, according to County Health Officer Kismet Baldwin-Santana.  […]

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