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.

Here's a good news story about a disease that was spreading fast through the summer. Not COVID-19, monkeypox. A few months ago, the U.S. was reporting more than 400 cases a day on average.