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Amid ongoing COVID-19 infections and an uptick in STDs, the U.S. is underprepared to face the growing public health crisis of monkeypox.

Sexual health clinics have been stretched so thin that many lack the staff to perform such basic duties as contacting and treating the partners of infected patients.

Clinics that treat sexually transmitted diseases — already struggling to contain an explosive increase in infections such as syphilis and gonorrhea — now find themselves on the front lines in the nation's fight to control the rapidly growing monkeypox outbreak.

Sexual health clinics are scrambling to properly track, test, and treat hundreds of monkeypox patients. So far, it isn't going well.

In their fight against monkeypox, sexual health clinics in the United States are underfunded and ill-equipped