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Samantha Hawley and Sydney Pead for ABC News Daily

How did monkeypox emerge in the US when the first diagnosed patient hadn’t left the country?

Monkeypox requires close and prolonged body contact to spread. (Reuters: Dado Ruvic/Illustration)

When a local man arrived in a Boston emergency department on May 12 with an unusual mix of symptoms, doctors were scratching their heads for days.

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