spread by touching the linens of someone who was infected. Symptoms include fever, body aches, chills, fatigue and painful bumps on the skin.
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Though the vaccine is meant to be given in two doses, officials in big cities including Washington, D.C., New York City and San Francisco have said they planned to stop offering second-vaccine appointments to stretch doses and allow them to “vaccinate more people at risk and slow the spread of monkeypox in the community more quickly,” the AP reports.
The United States expects to have another 5 million doses of monkeypox vaccine available in the future, but most will arrive in 2023, the AP reported.
You can schedule an appointment for the vaccine through your local or state health department.
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For more information on monkeypox, visit The World Health Organization.