County health officials seek more monkeypox testing, vaccine distribution

When Dr. Caroline Castillo signed a contract with Marion County to serve as public health medical director for the year, she didn’t know she would spend much of the summer preparing for a monkeypox outbreak.

Public health officials in Salem realized around the end of June that the hMPXV — the virus commonly known as monkeypox — was soon likely to make its way to Marion County. Castillo said they started holding calls with local…