Eleven Connecticut residents have been diagnosed with mpox so far this year, the state Department of Public Health announced Monday.
All the mpox patients are between the ages of 20 and 50, and reside in Fairfield, New Haven, New London and Hartford counties.
The majority of these patients have not been hospitalized. In 2023, only four Connecticut residents were diagnosed with mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) and there were 145 cases in 2022, according to DPH. There has also never been a death in Connecticut associated with mpox.
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