LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed Sept. 12 the first death due to monkeypox in a county resident.
The person “was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized,” the health department said in a statement Monday.
“To protect confidentiality and privacy, additional information on this case will not be made public,” the agency said.
“Public Health sends heartfelt condolences and wishes of healing to the family and friends mourning the loss of their loved one,” the department said.
The case first came to light last Thursday, when health officials announced the death of a person who was infected with monkeypox—though, at the time, an investigation was still ongoing as to whether the ailment was a contributing factor in the fatality….