Cases have dropped about 50 percent in the past month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), from an average of 440 cases a day on Aug. 16 to 170 cases a day on Sept. 14.

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The White House said it is enthused by positive data showing a slowdown in the spread of monkeypox, but warned that progress is uneven across the U.S. and minority men are not getting enough vaccines.

The White House on Tuesday appointed Robert Fenton the national monkeypox response coordinator, with Dr. Demetre Daskalakis as deputy coordinator. The two will hold their first press briefing on ...

White pox spreads rapidly and is highly contagious. Patterson's team said they discovered the cause of the disease is Serratia marcescens, a bacteria commonly found in the guts of people and animals.

Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK. ... Monkeypox is caused by the same family of viruses that caused smallpox—a much more serious disease that was eradicated in 1980.

The White House unveiled a plan Tuesday to send monkeypox vaccines and support to gay pride events across the ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had recorded 18,101 cases in ...

The disease can also spread from prolonged contact of objects or fabrics used by a monkeypox patient, but it is a lower risk form of transmission, according to the CDC. 'Traumatizing' lesions ...

A top official on the White House monkeypox response team on Friday sought to defend the Biden administration’s actions as the outbreak worsens but did not offer substantive explanations for why ...

The White House declared monkeypox a public health emergency in August to streamline resources and boost ... as the Jynneos shot was originally designed to prevent smallpox, a related disease.

We're up to about 3,600 known cases of monkeypox in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's more than ...

Eligible individuals who did not receive the monkeypox vaccine were around 14 times likelier to become infected with the virus than those who were vaccinated, according to federal government data ...