The new patients both traveled out of the country and tested positive this week.
Health officials did not say when the person traveled, but people on that person's flight were contacted.
The first monkeypox patient who tested positive earlier this month was presumed to have contracted it while in Germany. The person from Dallas then traveled to Mexico, where they showed symptoms, and left Mexico to come back to Dallas against the advice of doctors.
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