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Penn Highlands Healthcare Helps You Learn Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Monkeypox

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Monday, August 8, 2022

With the federal government declaring the growing monkeypox outbreak a national health emergency, Deepak Garg, MD, a physician with Penn Highlands Infectious Disease, participated in a recent interview about the virus.

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  • With the federal government declaring the growing monkeypox outbreak a national health emergency, Deepak Garg, MD, a physician with Penn Highlands Infectious Disease, participated in a recent interview about the virus.
  • Dr. Garg: Monkeypox is caused by the monkeypox virus, which is in the same family of viruses that causes smallpox.
  • The rash may look like pimples or blisters and may be itchy or painful before scabs form and they heal.
  • Deepak Garg, MD, specializes in Infectious Disease and Wound Care at Penn Highlands Healthcare.