Mpox cases are on the rise in King County, and local health officials are urging people that are eligible—and at risk—to get vaccinated.

A Wednesday alert from Public Health Insider, the official blog for county’s public health agency, said 45 new cases of mpox (formerly called monkeypox, a wrong that took the WHO 50 years to right) were reported in King County residents in September—the highest number of cases in the county in single a month since the initial 2022 outbreak. which saw as many as 200 new cases in a month. Case numbers have risen in Chicago, in San Francisco, and New York City as well.

Mpox is a viral infection that causes an often extremely painful skin rash, and sometimes flu-like symptoms. Fortunately, most people recover without treatment in two to four weeks, (there h

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