Health Dept. offering monkeypox vaccinations
A nurse administers the monkeypox vaccine at a walk-in clinic at the North Jersey Community Research Initiative in Newark, New Jersey, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. The Shelby County Health Department has started vaccinating residents here against monkeypox. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
As of Friday, Aug. 12, 171 Shelby County residents had been vaccinated against monkeypox.
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Aisling Mäki has spent the better part of two decades writing about Memphis. A former digital journalist for WMC Action News 5 and staff reporter for Memphis Daily News, her work has also appeared in The Commercial Appeal, High Ground News, I Love Memphis, Inside Memphis Business, The Memphis Flyer, Memphis Parent, Memphis Magazine and Tri-State Defender.
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