Responding to infections

By VCG Published: Sep 03, 2024 11:20 PM

A passenger walks past airport staff members standing in the Overseas Infectious Disease Reporting Center at Incheon International Airport in Seoul, South Korea on September 3, 2024 in a training drill to respond to an influx of new infectious diseases. South Korea redesignated monkeypox, now renamed Mpox, as an infectious disease subject to border screening on August 21. Photo: VCG

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