Monkeypox: What You Actually Need to Know

Digitally-colorized electron microscopic image depicting a monkeypox virus particle obtained from a clinical sample. Courtesy CDC. (Getty Images)
A primer by Donald G. McNeil Jr.
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If the byline on today’s piece is familiar to you it might be because Donald G. McNeil Jr. was the reporter who, more than any other, sounded the alarm about Covid. Or because he warned you about Zika years before. Or maybe you remember his groundbreaking work on AIDS.
Plagues are sort of McNeil’s thing.
For decades, he reported on epidemics of all kinds…
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