The report described a case where a Florida emergency department nurse was exposed to the monkeypox virus through a needlestick injury while collecting swab samples from a suspected monkeypox patient.

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Public Health Department has reported the nation's first monkeypox case in a healthcare worker who was exposed to the virus at work. Very little information about the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At risk people nationwide will now be able to get Bavarian Nordic's Jynneos monkeypox vaccine before being exposed to the disease, U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control ...

A large contact tracing investigation of a patient with monkeypox virus (MPXV) infection found no secondary cases in community or health care settings. The creation of a framework for assessing ...

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As monkeypox cases continue to climb, we’re all curious to learn more about the virus, how someone catches it, risk factors and what we can do to protect ourselves. There are currently a lot of ...

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Los Angeles County is investigating the death of a person who was infected with the monkeypox virus. In a Thursday media briefing, Dr. Rita Singhal, the chief medical officer for the Los Angeles ...

Efforts to shore up monkeypox prevention, vaccination and treatment in Marin are underway as the county’s number of infected residents rose to 13 as of Monday. While the viral infection, which has ...

The San Francisco Department of Public Health is starting to offer monkeypox vaccines to more at-risk gay and bisexual men and transgender people in an effort to stem the growing outbreak. "The ...

More than two years into the pandemic, people are ready to party, but COVID-19 is still with us, and the emergence of monkeypox among gay and bisexual men presents a new health threat. Health ...