THE HILL INTERVIEW

Former CDC official on new mpox cases and current federal resources

Demetre Daskalakis, former executive and principal at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Human Rights Campaign’s Senior Public Policy Advocate Matthew Rose spoke with The Hill about recent mpox cases detected in California and how the drastic changes at the federal level threaten the resources needed to respond.

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Three cases of mpox clade I were recently detected in California, with all infected individuals needing to be hospitalized. Clade 1 mpox generally causes more severe illness and differs from the clade II mpox that spread among the social networks of men who have sex with men starting in 2022.

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