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A health worker handles a vial of the Bavarian Nordic A/S Jynneos monkeypox vaccine at the Calit Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday, July 31, 2022. As health authorities all over the globe search for ways to stop the monkeypox outbreak, investors are snapping up shares of companies that could benefit from the race to quell the disease.Photographer: Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg

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By Madison Muller and Jeannie Baumann

August 24, 2022 at 7:55 PM UTC

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August 25, 2022 at 2:59 AM UTC

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US lawmakers will look to press Biden administration health officials on their response to the growing monkeypox outbreak in a Senate hearing planned for next month, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is planning the hearing on monkeypox for mid-September, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the information isn’t public.