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Monkeypox mutating more than previously thought, researchers say - Fox News

Monkeypox mutating more than previously thought, researchers say - Fox News

Monkeypox mutating more than previously thought, researchers say - Fox News
Jun 25, 2022 1 min, 3 secs

There are now more than 200 monkeypox and orthopoxvirus cases confirmed in the U.S., and experts are warning that the virus is mutating more that previously believed.

The CDC confirmed that there has been evidence of local transmission of monkeypox, in addition to the cases where the infected had traveled abroad. 

This weekend is New York City's annual Pride weekend, and some residents told The New York Times they were taking monekypox virus transmission risk into account. 

On Thursday health officials in the Big Apple expanded access to a monkeypox vaccine. 

The Biden administration has begun to ship monkeypox virus tests to commercial laboratories, which the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said would "dramatically expand testing capacity nationwide." 

A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968. 

Although the majority of new monkeypox cases have been seen in gay or bisexual men, experts caution that anyone is at potential risk. 

People normally become infected with the monkeypox virus through contact with the skin lesions or bodily fluids of infected animals or humans or through contact with materials contaminated with the virus

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