Gizelle Mendoza slipped the pink mammogram referral in her glovebox and carried on with her life. Then, a fortuitous bump in the road sent her down the path to cancer
Gizelle Mendoza slipped the pink mammogram referral in her glovebox and carried on with her life. Then, a fortuitous bump in the road sent her down the path to cancer
Dr. Cherie Drenzek, an epidemiologist with the state health department, said Georgia children have also contracted monkeypox.
"We have had a few cases that have occurred among children," she said. "These children actually were close household contacts of known monkeypox cases, but we've only seen less than a handful of these pediatric cases."
The most recent data from the Georgia Department of Public Health show 82% of monkeypox cases affect Black men who have sex with men. Of these, roughly two-thirds are also infected with HIV.