This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak.

Credit: Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, file

The Georgia Department of Revenue issued guidance that added an unborn child with a "detectable heartbeat" to the definition of a dependent. 

Georgia expects to receive more than 34,000 doses of the monkeypox vaccine over the next month and a half. 

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham is challenging a subpoena to testify before a special grand jury in Fulton County.

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