Monkeypox virus has already infected over 1,600 cases worldwide, mostly in Europe.
They noted that some individuals who attended recently traveled to Europe. Queer members of the community and an undisclosed number of other people coming from other states were among those who were present at the leather subculture event. The Chicago Department of Public Health said in a press release that the new monkeypox cases in Chicago involved people who attended the International Mr. Monkeypox Cases in Chicago and the Other States
In this Centers for Disease Control and Prevention handout graphic, symptoms of one of the first known cases of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient?s hand June 5, 2003.