This is the county’s first false positive test, which only happen in roughly 4 percent...
Houston Health Department Administration Manager Rachel Woods puts a new shipment of monkeypox vaccines into a freezer for storage Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, in Houston. The health department received 10,100 monkeypox doses today, which boosted the department’s inventory to about 21,300 doses.for monkeypox does not have the virus, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said Tuesday during a news conference.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the test was a false positive, Hidalgo said. This is the county’s first false positive test, which only happen in roughly 4 percent of tests nationwide, she said. No other local children have tested positive so far.
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