Second US monkeypox death as virus linked to brain inflammation

People line up at a monkeypox vaccination site in the U.S. state of California, on July 28, 2022. [AP Photo]

A second U.S. death was linked to monkeypox on Tuesday as health authorities published a study describing how two previously healthy young men experienced inflammation of the brain and spinal cord as a result of the virus.

There have been nearly 22,000 U.S. cases in the current global outbreak, which began in May, but new infections have been falling since mid-August as authorities have distributed hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses.