https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/08/08/san-francisco-retreated-on-contact-tracing-for-monkeypox-weeks-ago/ > SAN FRANCISCO — Despite experiencing one of the country’s largest outbreaks of monkeypox, San Francisco’s health department has pulled back on contact tracing  – a standard public health practice in combating viral disease – for those who have been infected, this news organization has learned. > The revelation comes amid successive declarations of public emergencies over the monkeypox virus by the federal government, the state and San Francisco Mayor London Breed, whose director of public health announced at the end of July it was “imperative that we mobilize city resources rapidly” to curb its spread.