Biden: U.S. exploring monkeypox vaccines; ‘everybody’ should be concerned

5/23/22
 
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from The Washington Post,
5/20/22:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert on May 20 urging doctors and state health departments to be vigilant for cases of monkeypox as an unprecedented global spread of the virus raises alarm among public health authorities.

Biden: U.S. exploring monkeypox vaccines; ‘everybody’ should be concerned

President Biden said Monday that he did not believe a quarantine to prevent the spread of monkeypox in the United States would be necessary, saying there are sufficient vaccine doses available to combat any serious flare-up of the disease.Belgium became the first country to impose a quarantine on its residents because of monkeypox, requiring those infected to isolate for 21 days.

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