DENVER — Almost two-thirds of Colorado’s monkeypox cases have been found in the Denver area, and they’re primarily clustered in men in the first half of adulthood.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released new information about the demographics of the state’s 168 known cases on Thursday. Six people have been hospitalized for monkeypox in Colorado, but none have died.
The true number of cases is likely higher, especially since testing was limited in the first months of the outbreak. Now, most health care providers can swab rashes to test for monkeypox and commercial labs can run the tests, state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said.
