As a global outbreak of monkeypox continues to grow, public health officials are stressing the importance of education in fighting the virus. "I am concerned by the scale and spread of the virus," ...

New Yorkers are hearing about a potential new infectious disease threat from monkeypox just as the city is grappling with a summer surge of COVID cases. Unlike COVID, no New Yorkers have died in the ...

Monkeypox is a virus first found in monkeys in the 1950s that is transmissible to humans. In May, the World Health Organization reported outbreaks of the virus in several countries. Dr. Leanne Skehan, ...

The first case of clade I mpox, or monkeypox, was identified in Connecticut on Wednesday.

Monkeypox has been declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization for the second time in three years. The Aug. 14 declaration came in response to an outbreak spanning 13 African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The CDC issued a health alert following an outbreak of a new strain of monkeypox virus (MPXV, or mpox) in the Democratic Republic ...

The World Health Organization has declared a global health emergency over the ongoing monkeypox outbreak in Africa. The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had declared the outbreak a ...

The World Health Organization announced Monday that "mpox" is now the preferred name for monkeypox. "Both names will be used simultaneously for one year while 'monkeypox' is phased out," the ...

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"Monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted infection in the typical sense, but it can be transmitted during sexual and intimate contact, as well as with personal contact and shared bedding and clothing, ...