California is 'looking carefully' at declaring a public health emergency for monkeypox to combat the outbreak, the state's lead public health official said Friday.
As of Thursday, 786 confirmed and probable cases have been reported across the state, two-thirds of which have been reported in San Francisco and Los Angeles counties alone. Eleven of those patients have been hospitalized, but no deaths due to the virus have been reported.
"No single individual or community is to blame for the spread of any virus," Aragon said."Monkeypox cab affect anyone and it spreads by skin-to-skin contact as well as from sharing items like clothing, bedding and towels." Last week, Aragon and state Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly sent a letter to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that California alone would need at least 600,000 to 800,000 vaccine doses, a figure they called a conservative estimate.
The CDC currently has the only FDA-cleared monkeypox test that can detect the virus from a swab of an open monkeypox sore.
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