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The Biden administration s decision to declare monkeypox a public health emergency could make it easier to deploy the federal bureaucracy against the once-rare disease.
Although there have been at least two cases of monkeypox in kids in the US, public health officials say that they believe the chance of widespread infections in youngsters is remote, even with a new school year just around the corner.
As monkeypox cases in the United States continue to rise, the Department of Health and Human Services will begin shipping additional vaccine doses to states and jurisdictions beginning tomorrow.