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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco and Arpan Rai

Illinois becomes third state to declare monkeypox public health emergency after New York and California

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Illinois has become the third state in the US to declare the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency.

In a statement on Monday, Governor JB Pritzker said that he was using the measure “to expand the resources and coordination of state agencies responding to, treating, and preventing the spread of monkeypox”.

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