The nationwide outbreak came to Texas in early June, when doctors found the state’s first infection in a Dallas County resident returning from an international trip.
, one third had not traveled recently, DSHS spokesperson Lara Anton said. Some were close contacts of people who traveled. All were men.
The four Houston residents’ monkeypox symtoms were first spotted by their healthcare providers, who contacted the city’s health department for confirmation, department spokesperson Porfirio Villarreal said Wednesday afternoon. Doctors at the department’s Texas Medical Center lab confirmed the diagnoses, as did scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where the doctors sent samples.
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