The disease began to spread as the world was still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Unlike COVID-19, monkeypox is not a new disease and it's not as transmissible. But officials are running into some of the same issues in combatting monkeypox that they faced at the start of the pandemic.
For example, testing for monkeypox was initially difficult in the U.S. as laboratories were not equipped for it.
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