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Hi, and welcome to COVID Quickly, a scientific American podcast series. This is your fast track update on the COVID pandemic.

We bring you up to speed on the science behind the most urgent questions about the virus and the disease.

We demystify the research and help you understand what it really means.

I'm Tanya Lewis. I'm Josh Fishman. And we're Scientific American Senior Health Editors. Today,

we're going to depart from our regular COVID programming to bring you a special segment on monkeypox,

what it is, how it spreads, what vaccines and treatments are available, and a look at the U.S. response so far.

Then we'll bounce back to long COVID and look at attempts to get a better handle on this poorly

defined and confusing disease.

This is a podcast about COVID, but there's another virus in town now, Monkeypox.

It is getting to be such a big problem that the U.S. just declared in a public health emergency.

How worried should we be about this, Tanya?

Monkeypox is not a new disease.

The monkeypox virus is related to smallpox but causes less severe disease.

It's been infecting humans since at least

the 1970s, mostly in Central and West Africa. But earlier this year, it started spreading among

people in Europe, the U.S., and other countries. And unlike previous outbreaks, which were often

in children or people who had contact with infected animals, the current cases appear to be primarily in men

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