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Caption: The agent that infected the monkeys "looked a little bit like monkeypox virus, a little bit like vaccinia virus, a little bit like cowpox virus, but not exactly like any of them," said Tony Goldberg, a professor of veterinary pathobiology and anthropology at the University of Illinois.
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer
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