A new mathematical model can guide public health policy makers on the most efficient way to use a limited supply of vaccines against monkeypox, data indicate. Developed by a team of researchers at the ...

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 ...

San Francisco will not renew its monkeypox public health emergency declaration when it expires at the end of the month. Daily cases of the virus in the U.S. have declined eightfold in the last two ...

Riverside County's public health department is working to secure vaccines to protect those most at risk of monkeypox infection, the director of disease control said Tuesday. Barbara Cole said the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker issued a public health emergency declaration and declared Illinois a disaster area in response to the monkeypox virus Monday, a move his office said would help ...

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 ...

Public Health – Seattle & King County has expanded its monkeypox vaccine eligibility to include more people who may be at risk. According to Public Health – Seattle & King County spokesperson Sharon ...

Chloe Orkin has no disclosures related to monkeypox. She has received research grant funding for other infectious diseases from Gilead Sciences, Viiv Healthcare, Merck Sharp and Dohme , Janssen and ...