RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Riverside County Public Health reported nine new probable and confirmed cases in the Coachella Valley, marking up a total of 51 cases in the county, a county official said today.
"Probable cases are considered as cases since there is lab evidence of a non-variola orthopox virus, of which monkeypox is the only currently circulating non-variola orthopox virus,'' Jose Arballo, a spokesman for Riverside University Health System, told City News Service.
Arballo announced Friday that all nine of the probable and confirmed cases reported by Riverside County Public Health were in the Coachella Valley and were described as men between the ages of 30 and 70.
Last Thursday, Arballo had announced that total probable/confirmed cases stood at 28 -- more than double the total from th
