Monkey pox is a disease that spreads unusually, but it does require close contact. There are ways to contain it and we also have medicines to treat it. It's not as deadly as some of the other poxes, like small pox, which was deadly in 30 sent of cases. But do you see it coming to that? Do you think that this might reach the need for a wide scale vacination effort? Probably not wide scale vaccination effort, but maybe vaccinate the closs conducts of pelfie workers.
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