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Monkeypox outbreak in US: What to know

By David Hogberg
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Monkeypox outbreak in US: What to know

The United States is experiencing a limited outbreak of the monkeypox virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently confirmed that in mid-July, a Texas man who had traveled from Lagos, Nigeria, to Atlanta, Georgia, had contracted the disease. The CDC is monitoring over 200 people the man had contact with and asking them to quarantine for about three weeks.

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