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Monkeypox May Be Spreading Person to Person

NPR | By Richard Knox

Published June 13, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

Wisconsin health officials are investigating at least three possible cases of human-to-human infection of monkeypox. If confirmed, they would be the first cases of person-to-person spread of the disease in the United States. The U.S. outbreak of the disease has so far involved people who got infected from pets. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

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