The monkeypox outbreak has captured the attention of an anxious public that's struggling to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and is on high alert for the next virus that might upend our lives.
Fortunately, professionals are a lot calmer about monkeypox than the armchair pundits.
"In the last couple of years, everybody's become a virologist," said Paula Cannon, an actual virologist at USC's Keck School of Medicine. "We don't have to get crazy scared."
