mpox: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	monkeypox

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A healthcare worker wearing purple gloves prepares a syringe with vaccine as Michael Nicot, wearing a mask and glasses, sits in the background waiting for a monkeypox vaccination.

Gloved hands draw liquid from a vial into a syringe, overlaid on a digitally colored microscopic image of a virus with round particles in clusters.

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