Countries such as the UK and France are now reporting zero daily cases of monkeypox after providing limited amounts of the vaccine to the most at-risk people.
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December 23, 2022
Los Angeles receives smallpox vaccine in August, protected from mpox Mario Tama/Getty Images
Monkeypox cases in the West plummet due to the rapid deployment of a vaccine targeting the most at-risk populations, making it one of the biggest public health successes of 2022.
In early May, the virus, recently renamed mpox by the World Health Organization (WHO), was identified outside endemic countries in West and Central Africa.
Cases were rising rapidly around the world, with more than 100 new infections reported daily by mid-June. After peaking at 1075 reported cases…
