New York state has reported its first monkeypox case in a minor under 18, according to a weekly summary from the state’s Department of Health.
Few other details are provided in the report, covering the week ending on Wednesday and published on Friday, in order to protect the patient family’s privacy. It is known that the child lives outside New York City – a hotspot of the outbreak. There have been nine other cases reported in children in the US.
Monkeypox has thus far been largely concentrated among gay men with multiple sex partners – the CDC reported last week that 99% of patients were men, with 94% of those having recently had sex with men. However, the latest figures from New York include two women, as well as three identified as transgender or nonbinary and three listed as simply “unknown.”