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From testing delays to vaccine rollout, health experts are frustrated the U.S. is repeating COVID-like mistakes with monkeypox.

RELATEDWhite House declares monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

The monkeypox outbreak in the United States is a public health emergency, the Biden administration declared Thursday, a move that could make it easier to tap funding and government resources to combat the once-rare disease.

More than 6,600 Americans have been diagnosed since mid-May. The virus, a less-deadly cousin of smallpox, has now triggered a 26,000-person global emergency, reaching 83 countries. But the full extent of America's outbreak is unknown.

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