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Editorial
. 2022 Aug 26:9:20499361221124027.
doi: 10.1177/20499361221124027. eCollection 2022 Jan-Dec.

First Monkeypox deaths outside Africa: no room for complacency

Ranjit Sah  1   2 , Aroop Mohanty  3 , Abdelaziz Abdelaal  2   4 , Abdullah Reda  5 , Alfonso J Rodriguez-Morales  6   7 , Andres F Henao-Martinez  8
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Editorial

First Monkeypox deaths outside Africa: no room for complacency

Ranjit Sah et al. Ther Adv Infect Dis. .
No abstract available

Keywords: case fatality rate; deaths; international concern; monkeypox; mortality; outbreak; public health emergency.

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Competing interests: The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The Editor in Chief and Associate Editor of Therapeutic Advances in Infectious Disease are authors of this paper. Therefore, the review process was managed by alternative members of the Editorial Board and the submitting Editors had no involvement in the decision-making process.

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