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Editorial
. 2025 Nov 14;232(5):e867-e868.
doi: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf365.

Preemptive Mpox Vaccine Deployment: Aligning Strategy With Reality

Sung-Mok Jung  1 , Fuminari Miura  2   3 , Hiroaki Murayama  4 , Sebastian Funk  5   6 , Jacco Wallinga  2   7 , Justin Lessler  1   8   9 , Akira Endo  10   11
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Editorial

Preemptive Mpox Vaccine Deployment: Aligning Strategy With Reality

Sung-Mok Jung et al. J Infect Dis. .
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Potential conflicts of interest. All authors: No reported conflicts. All authors have submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Conflicts that the editors consider relevant to the content of the manuscript have been disclosed.

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