🚨🇺🇸BREAKING: NEW MONKEYPOX STRAIN HITS U.S.: FIRST CASE CONFIRMED IN CALIFORNIA
California confirmed the first U.S. case of a more severe monkeypox strain after a traveler returned from East Africa.
The patient, infected with the clade 1 strain, is isolating at home with mild… pic.twitter.com/LW7MIQtQDi
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The first known case in the United States of a more severe strain of the monkeypox virus was confirmed in California Saturday as health officials said an individual who recently returned from Africa contracted the latest form of the disease.
The patient became infected with the clade 1 strain after traveling to Eastern Africa, where there is an ongoing outbreak of the virus, according to the California Department of Public Health.
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