Cases Of Monkeypox In The Us 2024 Map. Since january 2023, the drc has reported the largest number of yearly suspected clade i mpox cases on record. Since 2023, an epidemic of a new variant of mpox, known as clade 1b, began in central africa.

More than 3,800 monkeypox cases have been reported in the us, the most of any country around the globe, government health data shows. The strain that’s exploding in africa, endemic to congo and historically more severe, is called clade i.