Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

With pictures of monkeypox in circulation all over social media, a common question that many have is that isn't monkeypox similar to chickenpox? The diseases have similar symptoms like rashes and ...

Health officials across the U.S. and around the world are racing to curb a rapidly growing outbreak of monkeypox cases, deploying both vaccines and treatments to fight a disease that can lead to weeks ...

More than 10,000 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the U.S. Since the first case of monkeypox was detected in the United States in mid-May, the outbreak has led to more than 10,300 reported ...

The World Health Organization has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency of international concern — and the White House has made a similar declaration for the United States — but it ...

Between May and mid-October 2022, clinicians diagnosed more than 72,000 cases of monkeypox in 102 countries that aren’t typically affected by the virus (see map). 1 This new pandemic has strained ...

The Biden administration has declared the monkeypox outbreak in the US to be a public health emergency. “We’re prepared to take our response to the next level in addressing this virus, and we urge ...

In this issue of the Journal, Thornhill et al. report on 528 persons with monkeypox in a cohort spanning 16 countries on five continents. 1 The authors provide important demographic, epidemiologic, ...

Misinformation has been spreading about monkeypox, including that it is a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Monkeypox is not an STI and can spread through skin-to-skin contact between any two or ...

More than 20,000 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed across 71 countries where the virus isn't historically found. The European Union had recorded 11,000 cases as of Thursday, including more than 3 ...