Well being officers in Texas introduced Monday they're investigating what position monkeypox could have performed within the demise of a affected person dealing with "varied extreme sicknesses."
The demise marks the primary publicly introduced within the U.S. up to now in the course of the present outbreak. A minimum of 15 deaths have been reported all over the world.
An post-mortem is ongoing, native officers in Texas' Harris County stated, and is anticipated to be "out there within the subsequent few weeks."
As of Monday, greater than 18,000 monkeypox instances have been reported nationwide. Texas has 1,604 whole infections, the fourth-most of any state.
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