How to Get Vaccinated, Tested and Treated for Monkeypox
As a monkeypox outbreak continues to swell across the United States, health experts have said that expanded testing, vaccination and treatment will be important for curbing the disease.
But these critical tools are still not widely available, and it can be difficult to try to get a diagnosis and find access to medication that may help your symptoms.
Public health messages in the United States around individual risk and access to care have not always been clear; the clinics doing testing and the health department officials who follow up with patients often lack coordination; vaccine distribution has lagged; and treatment options remain obscure.
To make things more complicated, monkeypox symptoms may look different in some cases. People who get sick do not always have the traditional fever, aches and body-wide rashes.
