New York City sees seasonal increase in mpox cases

New York City sees seasonal increase in mpox cases

Three years after mpox overwhelmed New York City’s LGBTQ community, the virus has not rebounded to the same degree, but the five boroughs nonetheless continue to see hundreds of cases per year and there was a slight uptick in cases as spring turned to summer this year. The city witnessed fewer than a dozen monthly cases of mpox throughout the first quarter of this year — there were just two in the entire month of March — but cases slightly crept…