Baltimore City Health Department ends emergency response to mpox outbreak

The Baltimore City Health Department is ending its emergency response to the mpox outbreak that started last year, citing low transmission of the viral disease over the past two months. There are currently zero cases being monitored by the city health department, which announced in a Thursday news release it was demobilizing its Incident Command Structure response to mpox. The disease formerly known as monkeypox was first detected in Baltimore in June 2022.