Dallas resident has Texas’ first-ever case of monkeypox, but it’s ‘not a reason for alarm’ Tom Steele, The Dallas Morning News Updated at 6:30 p.m.: Revised to include comments from Dr. Philip Huang, Dallas County’s public health director. A Dallas resident has been diagnosed with monkeypox, the first case of the virus ever reported in a human in Texas, officials said Friday. But they stressed that the risk posed to the general public was very low. The patient flew to Dallas Love Field from Atlanta on July 9 after arriving in the country earlier that day on a flight from Lagos, Nigeria, officials said.