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Infectious, Severe Mpox Strain Spreads in California

Vials of the Bavarian Nordic A/S Jynneos mpox vaccine.Bloomberg
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Hi, it’s Jessica in New York. Three people have been diagnosed with a more severe version of mpox in California. But first…

Three people in California who had not recently traveled overseas have been diagnosed with a particularly infectious and severe variant of mpox, health officials said last week, the first such cases in the US identified since 2022.