DHEC is Responding to the 2022 US Mpox Outbreak
In early spring 2022, with reports growing about mpox cases internationally, the DHEC Division of Acute Disease Epidemiology (DADE) staff began to follow updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May of 2020, the CDC issued a health alert regarding a positive mpox case in Massachusetts and DADE shared it through DHEC’s Health Alert Network (HAN).