Mpox can affect any community.
Health experts are suggesting Chicago residents get the monkeypox vaccine as case of Mpox are on the rise in the city.Howard Brown Health has issued a warning that cases of Mpox, formerly called monkeypox, are on the rise in Chicago.
The LGBTQ-focused clinic has diagnosed eight cases of Mpox since mid-April. All of the patients have been gay or bisexual men. "Previously, before this point, for about the last 12 weeks, there had actually been no new reported cases in Chicago," said Wren O'Kelley, with Howard Brown Health. The World Health Organization is changing the name from monkeypox to Mpox to minimize racist and stigmatized language.Public health officials are concerned about a surge in the virus this summer, following major events in Chicago's LGBTQ-plus community.
"We're just trying to drive awareness and for people to have an eye out and take preventative steps that they might not think apply to them," O'Kelley said.But health officials are urging those at-risk to get the vaccine.
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