Confirmed monkeypox cases in the United States have exceeded the mark of 10,000, according to the newest data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the country's national public health agency.
The Biden administration last Thursday declared monkeypox a public health emergency, more than a week after the World Health Organization qualified the outbreak as a global emergency.
Critics say the U.S. authorities had acted too slow and were not meeting the demand for vaccines as the number of cases continued to grow.
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