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Editorial: Didn’t we learn anything from COVID? US needs to get a move on fighting monkeypox

In some ways, the current outbreak of monkeypox closely resembles two other public health crises of the last 40 years — COVID-19 and AIDS. The disease was barely even known to the American public before this year, when it was limited to a few cases each year among people who traveled from Africa. Then the virus that causes monkeypox started behaving differently and was showing up in clusters ...
A medical laboratory technician picks up from a fridge a reactive to test suspected monkeypox samples at the microbiology laboratory of La Paz Hospital on June 6, 2022, in Madrid, Spain.

In some ways, the current outbreak of monkeypox closely resembles two other public health crises of the last 40 years — COVID-19 and AIDS.

The disease was barely even known to the American public before this year, when it was limited to a few cases each year among people who traveled from Africa. Then the virus that causes monkeypox started behaving differently and was showing up in clusters around the world. Like COVID-19, monkeypox burst

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