More than 570 cases of mpox have been detected in the U.S. so far in 2024 — nearly double the number seen by this time last year.
This infection rate doesn't come close to that seen at the peak of the mpox outbreak in early August 2022, when the U.S. saw an average of about 470 new cases in a week. However, the new data highlight that mpox is still circulating and that there's still a need for people who are at risk of infection to get vaccinated.
