At the end of May, Public Health—Seattle and King County reported the first presumptive (later confirmed) case of monkeypox. We screamed a thousand internal screams before soothing ourselves with the fact that this disease doesn’t seem to spread as easily as that other disease still ravaging the planet one subvariant at a time.
It’s been over a month since that local patient zero—where do things stand now?
Monkeypox cases in Seattle and King County
There are currently 29 confirmed cases of monkeypox in King County, with the first ones reported in Snohomish County and Pierce County within the last week. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there are 28 total cases in Washington. Math aside,
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