Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Monkeypox has been confirmed in 81 countries where it wasn't typically found, including the US. An unusual monkeypox outbreak ...

With the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services declaring the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency as the number of cases continue to rise, the most important thing you can do is know ...

Wonder if there is a vaccine for monkeypox? Good news: There's actually two. Here's how Jynneos and ACAM2000 vaccines work to fight monkeypox. Martin S. Hirsch is the editor-in-chief of infectious ...

The U.S. has distributed 1,200 doses of vaccine across the U.S. for people who have had high risk exposures to monkeypox. The U.S. has two vaccines in its national stockpile that can be used against ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The federal government declared a public health emergency Thursday to bolster the response to the monkeypox outbreak that has infected more than 7,100 Americans. The ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- With cases of monkeypox on the rise across the country and here in the tri-state area, health experts say college students set to return in the fall need to proceed with caution ...

Monkeypox symptoms generally last between two and four weeks. Cases of monkeypox continue to rise as a recent outbreak reaches countries in North America and Europe, where the disease is not commonly ...

Public health efforts are showing reassuring results. There are early signs that new monkeypox cases are slowing down in the U.S. Experts are optimistic that the virus can be completely eliminated ...

Monkeypox, caused by the monkeypox virus—a close cousin of smallpox—has spread rapidly worldwide. From 2022 to 2025, more than 133,000 cases were reported across 131 countries. In August 2024, the ...

In 2022, the medical establishment and public health world nixed the name "monkeypox" for two key reasons. Animal-to-human transmission comes from rodents. And the name "monkeypox" was seen as racist ...

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 ...