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As Dr. Daniel Pastula, a professor of neurology, infectious disease and epidemiology at The University of Colorado and Colorado School of Public Health, previously told Insider, monkeypox can spread between people who are in very close physical contact with one another, whether the contact is sexual in nature or not.