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Dog tests positive for monkeypox, spurring CDC to update its guidance

By Abigail Adcox
Published August 16, 2022 8:59pm ET
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Dog tests positive for monkeypox, spurring CDC to update its guidance
A visitor checks in at a Pop-Up Monkeypox vaccination site at the West Hollywood Library on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022, in West Hollywood, Calif.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its monkeypox guidance to reflect that dogs are susceptible to contracting the virus after a study reported the first known case of a human-to-dog transmission in France.

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