USA Reports More Than 15,000 Monkeypox Cases; World’s Highest Tally

More than 15,000 monkeypox cases have been confirmed in the USA.

Written by: India.com News Desk Edited by: Tahir Qureshi

Published: August 24, 2022, 2:23 AM IST

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People wait in line to recieve the Monkeypox vaccine before the opening of a new mass vaccination site at the Bushwick Education Campus in Brooklyn on July 17, 2022, in New York City. New York, on the US East Coast, has already either administered or scheduled 21,500 vaccines and hopes to speed up the process, promising more than 30,000 jabs for the whole state. (Kena Betancur / AFP)

Monkeypox in USA: More than 15,000 monkeypox cases have been confirmed in the USA. This was corroborated by the latest data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A total of 15,433 known monkeypox cases had been reported nationwide as of Monday, Xinhua news agency reported, citing CDC data. New York has the most monkeypox cases with 2,910, followed by California with 2,663, and Florida with 1,588, according to CDC data.

The Biden administration has been facing criticism in its response to the monkeypox outbreak, including failure to order enough vaccines, speed treatments, and make tests available to head off the outbreak.

So far, the US has the world’s highest tally of monkeypox cases

Over the last week, the US also saw the largest increase in monkeypox infections of any country, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO).