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

Monkeypox disproportionally affects communities of color, according to a report from the Georgia Department of Public Health.

An independent commission submitted its recommendations for renaming nine Army posts that commemorate Confederate officers, including two in Georgia.

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