Traces of the have reportedly been detected in wastewater in , California, sparking concern that the could in another outbreak. News of the discovery comes a day after the (WHO) declared a "public health emergency of international concern" after an outbreak was detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The are "monitoring an outbreak of a different strain of the Mpox virus" in the country, according to the San Francisco Health Department, which encouraged people to take care of their sexual health by getting vaccinated for Mpox.
San Francisco's database on the virus reportedly shows that there wasn't any data for August yet but there had been one recorded case of the virus in July. The health department chillingly warned, however: "While there is not currently a rise in Mpox cases in San Francisco, the virus continues to circulate in areas of the United States." The data from San Francisco's WastewaterSCAN Dashboard, which showed cases of Mpox on July 26, Aug.
11 and Aug. 12, didn't specify whether the Mpox came from human sources or not. Mpox first rose to prominence in 2022, when a global outbreak of the disease, formerly known as monkeypox, swept through the U.
S., Europe, Australia and several other countries. Clade I and clade II are the top variants, and the disease spreads through close contact.
The last outbreak was caused by clade II, reported, and was spread mostly through sexual or other intimate contact, primarily by men who have sex with men. But the most .
