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Ari Shapiro

The monkeypox outbreak was avoidable and warning signs were ignored, expert says

A bucket with suspected monkeypox samples is stored at a laboratory in Spain in June. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Monkeypox has been a developing problem for decades and the current global outbreak was avoidable, but the looming threat was largely ignored, according to a leading expert on the virus.

Dr. Anne Rimoin is a UCLA epidemiology professor and has spent the last two decades in the Democratic Republic of Congo working on monkeypox.

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