New York health officials this week reported the state’s first known case of monkeypox in a patient aged under 18.
A new weekly summary of Monkeypox Cases from the New York State Department of Health confirmed that the affected person resides outside of New York City, but did not specify where in the state the case was reported.
Owing to patient confidentiality, the data (pdf) did not specify whether the person affected was a child or a teenager.
The case is one out of about 2,800 monkeypox cases in the state of New York, with the vast majority—2596 cases—in New York City, according to New York’s health department as of Aug. 19….