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Los Angeles County officials report confirmed monkeypox death
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The Los Angeles Division of Public Well being and the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention confirmed the primary loss of life as a result of monkeypox virus in a county resident.
The resident was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized.
“Public Well being sends heartfelt condolences and needs of therapeutic to the household and pals mourning the lack of their liked one,” the division stated in an announcement.
Extra info on the case won’t be made public.
WHO ALLOWS PUBLIC TO HELP RENAME MONKEYPOX, VOWS NOTHING ‘RIDICULOUS’
Encino, CA – September 08: Ria Garcia, an LVN with Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being, attracts up monkeypox vaccines on the Balboa Sports activities Advanced vaccine website in Encino on Sept. 8, 2022.
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People who find themselves severely immunocompromised and suspect they’ve monkeypox are inspired to hunt medical care and remedy early and stay below the care of a supplier throughout their sickness.
The CDC exhibits that there are 21,985 confirmed circumstances throughout the U.S.
Encino, CA – September 08: Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being Director Barbara Ferrer holds an in-person media briefing on COVID-19 on the Balboa Sports activities Advanced vaccine website in Encino on Sept., 2022 the place the brand new bivalent COVID-19 booster and monkeypox vaccine are being supplied.
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MONKEYPOX CASES DECLINE, DESPITE GROWING RACIAL DISPARITIES
In Los Angeles County, there are 1,836 circumstances as of Friday
David Hightower, 57, left, seems to be away whereas receiving the monkeypox vaccine by registered nurse Jeremy Oyague, proper, with The Los Angeles Division of Public Well being at a vaccination clinic to immunize folks in opposition to monkeypox and COVID at The Village Psychological Well being Providers in Los Angeles, a website run by The Folks Concern.
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The primary reported loss of life of somebody within the U.S. who had been identified with monkeypox was in Texas final month.
The Texas Division of State Well being Providers introduced that an grownup in Harris County who was “severely immunocompromised” and identified with monkeypox had died.