NPR | "Three cases of new mpox strain reported in California"
NPR interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin for the "Morning Edition" program about cases of mpox in southern California.
NPR interviewed UCLA Fielding's Dr. Anne Rimoin, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Gordon–Levin Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Public Health, for the "Morning Edition" program, about a new strain of the Mpox virus, after three cases were reported last week in Southern California.
"Although when we see this, it's particularly (concerning) in low resource settings like in Central Africa, where I've been working for the last two decades," said Anne Rimoin, an epidemiologist with the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. “This certainly is an important moment to understand that there are cases of a potentially more severe clade circulating, and it's not just a heads up for southern California, it's a heads up nationally."
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