{"id":43756,"date":"2022-09-01T06:25:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T06:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/127.0.0.1\/htb\/?p=43756"},"modified":"2022-09-10T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:46:21","slug":"us-cases-mmwr-report-on-1891-cases-to-22-july-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/43756","title":{"rendered":"US cases: MMWR report on 1891 cases to 22 July 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-43297\" src=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/typical-MPV-rash-on-hand-2-colour1-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/strong>On 12 August 2022, the weekly MMWR reported on the monkeypox outbreak in the US which had been declared a national emergency eight days earlier.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Although 2,891 people had MPX up to 27 July, the MMWR report only summarises reports from the 1,195 (41%) cases with data on gender and age.<\/p>\n<p>This included cases in 43 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia (DC). Among these, 99% of cases were in men; and in those with information, 94% reported male-to-male sexual or close intimate contact during the 3 weeks before symptom onset.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Among the 88% of cases with data, 41% were non-Hispanic White, 28% Hispanic or Latino, and 26% non-Hispanic Black or African American.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Further details though are more limited especially on other demographics, clinical presentation and outcomes where fewer than 400 cases have these details.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>337\/358 (94%) reported close contact with a man in the previous three weeks.<\/li>\n<li>80\/291 (27%) reported one partner, 40% reported 2 to 4 partners, 14% reported 5 to 9 partners, and 19% reported 10 or more partners.<\/li>\n<li>136\/334 (41%) had HIV infection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By 31 August 2022, more than 18,000 people had been diagnosed in the US, approximately one-third of the global total.<\/p>\n<p>Reference<\/p>\n<p>Philpott D et al. Epidemiologic and Clinical Characteristics of Monkeypox Cases \u2014 United States, May 17\u2013July 22, 2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2022;71:1018-1022. DOI:\u00a010.15585\/mmwr.mm7132e3. (12 August 2022).<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7132e3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7132e3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Collins, HIV i-Base On 12 August 2022, the weekly MMWR reported on the monkeypox outbreak in the US which had been declared a national emergency eight days earlier. Although 2,891 people had MPX up to 27 July, the MMWR &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mpox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43756"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43946,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43756\/revisions\/43946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/htb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}