monkeypox

U.S. health officials are expanding the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus.

The U.S. will deploy nearly 300,000 monkeypox vaccine doses in the coming weeks in an effort to stamp out the growing outbreak of the virus.

The World Health Organization said the escalating monkeypox outbreak in more than 50 countries should be closely monitored but does not warrant being declared a global health emergency.

WHO is convening an emergency committee Thursday to consider if the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox warrants being declared a global emergency, a decision that comes only after the disease spilled into the West

The Biden administration has started shipping monkeypox tests to commercial laboratories, in a bid to speed diagnoses for suspected infections for the virus that has already infected at least 142 people in the U.S.

The CDC has confirmed 100 monkeypox cases in 20 states and the District of Columbia in the last month, making it the country’s largest monkeypox outbreak ever.

The World Health Organization announced an urgent move to rename the virus after a group of scientists argued that it is “inaccurate” and “stigmatizing.”

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is reporting two more monkeypox cases. Officials said the two men had close contact with each other, and are not believed to be linked to the state’s first case of monkeypox last month. Monkeypox typically spreads by skin-to-skin contact, or contact with contaminated clothing or bedding. It’s rarely fatal. The latest U.S. data indicates...

Health officials announced the first probable case of monkeypox in Rhode Island on Thursday morning. The case is believed to be related to travel to Massachusetts, health officials said. No additional positive cases have been detected in Rhode Island. The case is in a man in his 30s who lives in Providence County, the Rhode Island Department of Health said….

Bavarian Nordic also holds 1 million U.S.-owned doses and can fill another 16.4 million shots upon request by the federal government.

Monkeypox is not classified as a sexually transmitted disease

Monkeypox doesn’t spread as easily as COVID; it’s much more easier to identify close contacts and vaccinate them

Symptoms take 7-14 days to show, but can take up to 21 days to show

We already have vaccines and treatments approved for monkeypox

The CDC is tracking monkeypox cases in seven states: California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

An outbreak of the monkeypox virus in North America and Europe is primarily spreading through sex among men with about 200 confirmed and suspected cases.

Smallpox is officially eradicated from the planet, but reserves of the smallpox vaccine could still be useful against a newly emerged disease: monkeypox. UCLA epidemiologist Dr. Anne Rimoin joins LX News and explains how the smallpox vaccine can be used to prevent transmission of monkeypox.

President Joe Biden says cases of monkeypox are “something that everybody should be concerned about.” The president made his first public comments on the disease after being asked about it during his visit to South Korea. He said there’s work underway to identify an effective vaccine. And he added that if the disease were to spread “it would be consequential.”...

Israeli authorities say they have detected the country’s first case of monkeypox in a man who returned from abroad and were looking into other suspected cases. Israel’s Health Ministry said late Saturday the man was in a Tel Aviv hospital in good condition. It called on anyone returning from abroad with fever and lesions to see a doctor. The World...

Dr. David Banach talks about the monkeypox virus, which was detected in Massachusetts earlier this week.