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The Los Angeles Department of Public Health said on Monday it had confirmed the area’s first death due to monkeypox, saying the individual was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized.
The department said it had made the determination that the death in Los Angeles County was due to monkeypox together with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“The resident was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized,” the department said in a statement.
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It is the second known death of a person diagnosed with the disease in the United States.
Texas last month reported the first death in a severely immunocompromised person who was diagnosed with monkeypox. — Reuters
