Monkeypox

I wonder what the next pandemic will be after monkeypox. We'll surely get something.

Tom and Mary put on a mouth mask against monkeypox.

Monkeypox spreads through close contact.

Monkeypox spreads via skin-to-skin contact.

India is accelerating action against the monkeypox virus after reporting its first death due to monkeypox in the southern state of Kerala, that of a 22-year-old man who had recently returned from the United Arab Emirates.

Two of the hardest-hit U.S. regions have raised the alert level over the monkeypox outbreak.

Many straight people with monkeypox symptoms aren't being tested because they don't fit the profile, skewing the data in the process.

The rare virus, normally found only in African rainforests, may have come to the United States when a distributor imported prairie dogs along with a Gambian giant rat, a species known to be susceptible to monkeypox.

A World Health Organization independent committee of experts says the spread of monkeypox in a number of countries around the world is worrisome but does not constitute what the WHO calls a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

She explains that "monkeypox" is a misnomer. The virus is actually carried by rodents which pass the disease along to humans.

In a remote southwestern pocket of the Central African Republic, doctor Patrick Karume and his small team are on the jungle frontline to quarantine a rare outbreak of monkeypox.

Monkeypox is a rare viral pox-like disease from the smallpox family, only milder. It can be transmitted through respiratory droplets, contact with body fluids or contact with an infected animal or animal products. The first human case of monkeypox was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States saw a large outbreak among humans in 2003 after the virus spread from imported African rodents to pet prairie dogs. However, this is believed to be the first monkeypox virus infection in a Texas resident, according to Dallas County health officials.

Clusters of monkeypox cases have recently been identified in Britain and Portugal, while Spain is investigating suspected cases of the virus.