The person 'was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized,' the health department said in a statement.
This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.
"To protect confidentiality and privacy, additional information on this case will not be made public," the agency said. The case was only the second in the United States being investigated as a possible monkeypox death. Texas previously reported a death involving a monkeypox patient.
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