Now Three [Not Two] Unrelated Clade 1b Mpox Cases -- In Southern California -- With No Recent Histories Of Travel... Disconcerting.

When we decide against addressing outbreaks / epidemics on the other side of the globe -- because a Tangerine dotard doesn't want to help largely non-whyte humans, with USAID. . . we here eventually ride the lightning, too. This is so, because viral vectors spread readily when hundreds of thousands of humans -- as they do -- travel globe-wide, daily.

The first three cases of Clade 1b, the more serious strain of Mpox, have now been hospitalized in Southern California. The deeply troublesome factor here is that none of them personally were travellers outside the US, and did not (knowingly) interact with people who had recently come from any African locale. To be sure, there are also reports of one case in New York City. . . but here is last week's news. It should worry us all:

. . .The California Department of Public Health and local health officials in Long Beach and Los Angeles County have identified three unrelated cases of clade I mpox in Californians who did not report recent travel outside the United States.

Prior cases of clade I mpox in the United States have been associated with international travel to areas where clade I mpox is circulating.

All three cases required hospitalization and the patients are now recovering. . . .

And, as if on cue -- my next post when I return from brunch will be of a new outbreak in Namibia -- again. . . when we choose NOT to address the small outbreaks. . . they become larger, and more lethal. . . and more of a global problem, rather than a local one. That's how real bioscience works. Out.

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