If the coronavirus and a summer resurgence wasn’t enough, now Alabama has monkeypox to contend with. Two cases were confirmed last week in the state, the first in Mobile County and the second in Jefferson County. State health officials said more can be expected. According to the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH), “Monkeypox is a very rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. It is usually found in Central and West Africa and does not occur naturally in the United States…[it] was so named because it was first discovered in 1958 in monkeys. It is most often...

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