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Mpox back in Michigan, though numbers are lower than 2022 outbreak
April 12, 2024
Robin Erb (Email)
Mpox surged throughout the nation in 2022, but cases quickly fell after awareness of risks grew and vaccines were made available.
Just four cases were reported in Michigan last year.
In an alert to clinicians Friday, Michigan health officials said 16 cases have been reported since February.
Michigan is reporting an uptick in mpox, including 16 probable or confirmed cases since February. Of those most recent cases, three men were hospitalized.
Those cases of the infection formerly known as monkeypox were reported in Genesee, Kent, Oakland, Ottawa, and Macomb counties and in Detroit, according to an update Friday from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Cases remain “significantly lower” than they were during the peak of the outbreak in 2022. That year, the state reported 394 cases, primarily in the summer and fall, after the first case was detected in Oakland County in July, according to state health department data...
Mpox back in Michigan, though numbers are lower than 2022 outbreak
April 12, 2024
Robin Erb (Email)
Mpox surged throughout the nation in 2022, but cases quickly fell after awareness of risks grew and vaccines were made available.
Just four cases were reported in Michigan last year.
In an alert to clinicians Friday, Michigan health officials said 16 cases have been reported since February.
Michigan is reporting an uptick in mpox, including 16 probable or confirmed cases since February. Of those most recent cases, three men were hospitalized.
Those cases of the infection formerly known as monkeypox were reported in Genesee, Kent, Oakland, Ottawa, and Macomb counties and in Detroit, according to an update Friday from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
Cases remain “significantly lower” than they were during the peak of the outbreak in 2022. That year, the state reported 394 cases, primarily in the summer and fall, after the first case was detected in Oakland County in July, according to state health department data...