1st Monkeypox Case in Juvenile Reported in New York State

A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. CDC/Handout via Reuters

New York health officials this week reported the state’s first known case of monkeypox in a patient aged under 18.

A new weekly summary of Monkeypox Cases from the New York State Department of Health confirmed that the affected person resides outside of New York City, but did not specify where in the state the case was reported.