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The Florida Department of Health reports 260 total monkeypox cases in sixteen counties through July 22.
Broward County, in the southeast part of the state, has recorded nearly half the cases with 129.
The rest of the affected counties include: Miami-Dade (70), Pinellas (13), Orange (12), Palm Beach (8), Monroe (8), Hillsborough (5), Polk (3), two each in Collier, Duval, Lee and Seminole counties and one each in Alachua, Lake, Santa Rosa and Sarasota counties.
Nationally as of July 22, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported 2,891 total confirmed monkeypox/orthopoxvirus cases from 43 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia.
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