Mpox: Expanded with Startling Speed, Became a Global Emergency

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• Corporate Authors:
   National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Description:
  During 2022, partners and teams from CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) and from across CDC worked tirelessly to contain the spread of mpox in the United States. Following the first reported case in mid-May, the U.S. outbreak eventually swelled to roughly 30,000 cases and 20 total deaths in 2022. Although the outbreak presented new challenges, we were ready with decades of experience studying poxviruses and responding to global outbreaks.
  
  Within months of the first U.S. case, global cases soared in more than 100 countries—including cases in nearly every U.S. state, making it the largest mpox outbreak in history. This led the World Health Organization and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to declare mpox a public health emergency. CDC’s efforts —with NCEZID experts at all levels of the response— intensified into August of 2022, after which case counts began declining.
  
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• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Global Health Mpox (monkeypox) Public Health Public Health Practice United States Government Agencies
• Series:
  NZEID Accomplishments 2022
• Document Type:
  Text
• Name as Subject:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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