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A monkeypox case reported in the San Francisco Bay Area adds to the growing evidence that people can contract the virus in multiple ways — and raises questions about just how easy it is to get infected during casual encounters with others.

Dr. Walensky's proposed bureaucratic reshuffling is too timid.

The agency aims to make its public messaging clearer and its responses faster

New York resident infected in June may have caught virus through local transmission, study says

Pets exposed to people with monkeypox should be isolated to ensure they don’t spread the virus to other people or animals, U.S. health officials said after a dog was reported to be infected with the virus in Paris.

Health officials are scrambling to stretch scarce doses of vaccine to slow the mounting monkeypox outbreak, but do older people already vaccinated as kids for the related but deadlier smallpox virus already have protection?

Updated guidance follows reports of Italian greyhound with virus

The first lady will remain at a private residence in South Carolina and isolate from others for at least five days per CDC guidance.

Every delay intensifies concern that the government is fumbling the early response to another emerging health threat.

Animal carriers of the virus include various rodents, dogs, primates, hedgehogs and shrews, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.