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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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CST Editorial Board

Monkeypox cases show signs of slowing down — but keep prevention moving forward

A person receives his monkeypox vaccine at a monkeypox vaccination site on July 28 in West Garfield Park. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Illinois is approaching 1,000 monkeypox cases, but Chicago Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady had some good news on Tuesday: There are signs of a possible plateau in new cases.

More and more Chicago men who have sex with men, the group most at risk of contracting the disease, continue to seek out the vaccine. Simultaneously, the troublesome growth in cases health experts were tracing this summer have slowed down.

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