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   Los Angeles County health officials are investigating the death   
   of a person diagnosed with MPX to see whether the viral illness   
   was a primary cause of mortality.   
      
   An autopsy still needs to be conducted, and “it does take time   
   for those results to come back. So it may be as soon as a few   
   days, or it may take a few weeks,” according to Dr. Rita   
   Singhal, chief medical officer for the county’s Department of   
   Public Health.   
      
   “It’s not a confirmed death due to monkeypox,” she said at a   
   briefing Thursday. “We do have a death of a person who did have   
   a diagnosis of monkeypox. And so this is something that we will   
   investigate further.”   
      
   Singhal didn’t respond to a question about whether the   
   individual had underlying health conditions.   
      
   Health officials in California recently started to use the name   
   MPX — pronounced mpox — instead of monkeypox because of   
   widespread concerns the older name is stigmatizing and racist.   
   The World Health Organization is in the process of formally   
   renaming the disease, which will take several months.   
      
   L.A. County officials will work with the U.S. Centers for   
   Disease Control and Prevention and state health officials to   
   determine whether they need to change guidelines about how to   
   treat MPX patients, especially those who are severely ill,   
   Singhal said.   
      
   Deaths and severe illness are still rare in the global outbreak.   
   This is the second death in the U.S. in which officials are   
   probing whether MPX was a contributing cause.   
      
   Health officials in Texas said last week they were investigating   
   the death of an adult who was severely immunocompromised. It   
   wasn’t immediately clear what role MPX played in that person’s   
   death.   
      
   There have been more than 56,000 cases worldwide, including more   
   than 21,000 in the U.S. Globally, there have been seven   
   confirmed deaths among MPX-infected people in countries where   
   the virus was not circulating prior to this year’s outbreak.   
      
   More than 4,100 probable and confirmed MPX cases have been   
   reported in California. L.A. County, the most populous in the   
   nation, has reported 1,805 cumulative cases. San Francisco has   
   the second-highest tally, with more than 750. However, on a per   
   capita basis, San Francisco has a much higher case rate — 87   
   cases for every 100,000 residents, compared with L.A. County’s   
   18.   
      
   San Diego, Riverside, Alameda, Orange, Santa Clara and   
   Sacramento counties have each reported at least 125 MPX cases as   
   well.   
      
   Of the roughly 3,100 MPX cases in California for which data are   
   available, 140 patients were hospitalized at some point — a rate   
   of about 4.5%.   
      
   The rate of newly reported MPX cases continues to slow. For the   
   seven-day period that ended Thursday, L.A. County reported 187   
   new MPX cases, a 30% decline from the prior week’s tally of 269.   
      
   L.A. County’s apparent weekly peak was Aug. 19 to Aug. 25, when   
   313 MPX cases were reported.   
      
   San Francisco is also observing a slowdown in newly reported MPX   
   cases.   
      
   Last week, Singhal credited the slowdown in part to vaccination   
   efforts and nationwide survey data suggesting that gay and   
   bisexual men have decreased their number of sexual partners and   
   one-time sexual encounters in light of the outbreak.   
      
   And because MPX is much harder to transmit — it typically   
   requires close skin-to-skin contact for an infection to occur,   
   and is nowhere near as transmissible through air as the   
   coronavirus — “there is going to be a natural burning out that   
   you’ll see after some time,” Singhal said.   
      
   MPX disease is characterized by virus-filled rashes and lesions   
   that can look like pimples, bumps or blisters. It can appear   
   first in the genital area and rectum before spreading to other   
   parts of the body, and because the rashes can be mistaken for   
   other skin issues, the virus can easily spread during intimate   
   encounters. Risk is higher for people with multiple sexual   
      
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