Monkeypox: CDC investigating first US case of the year as growing clusters emerge globally outside Africa
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The United Kingdom confirmed clusters of monkeypox infections, while Spain and Portugal are both investigating suspected cases. The United States confirmed its first monkeypox infection of the year.
It is unclear if the U.S. case is linked to any of the cases abroad, but the patient did recently travel to Canada by car. Health officials in Quebec are investigating more than a dozen suspected monkeypox cases, according to a recent Canadian Broadcasting Corporation report.
"Given that we have seen now confirmed cases out of Portugal, suspected cases out of Spain, we’re seeing this expansion of confirmed and suspect cases globally. We have a sense that no one has their arms around this to know how large and expansive it might be," said Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) division of high consequence pathogens and pathology.