A New Hampshire resident has been diagnosed with the third known case of clade I mpox in the United States. Officials with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said the person recently traveled to eastern Africa,

A New Hampshire resident has been diagnosed with clade I mpox, one of two types of the virus formerly called monkeypox, following a trip to eastern Africa, state health officials

A person in New Hampshire is the first in the state and third in the United States to contract a variant of the viral disease mpox, health officials said Friday. Mpox, originally known as monkeypox, causes an infectious rash that’s spread through close physical contact with an infectious person or items they used — not through the air — and there’s no evidence of person-to-person spread in New Hampshire or the United States,