The Nigerian doctor who treated the 2017 monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria told Fox News in an interview that the virus now "shows all of the signs of becoming an established STD," as more U.S. cases ...

Editor's Note: The following report contains graphic language about the sexual transmission of monkeypox. NBC News poked a hole in the public health narrative that skin-to-skin contact, rather than ...

Monkeypox is a disease caused by the monkeypox virus, a pathogen closely related to variola virus, which causes smallpox.

LONDON, UK — The World Health Organization says it's holding an open forum to rename the disease monkeypox, after some critics raised concerns the name could be derogatory or have racist connotations.

Artificial intelligence just helped scientists uncover a hidden weakness in the monkeypox virus — a surface protein no one ...

The Texas Department of State Health Services announced on Saturday that they received a shipment of 14,780 doses of the JYNNEOS monkeypox vaccine. The video featured above is from a previous report.

The world is currently experiencing by far the largest ever epidemic of human monkeypox, and the United States is disproportionately affected, accounting for 16,500 of the 46,000 confirmed cases ...

The disease formerly known as monkeypox has a new name: "mpox." It's not much of a depature, but it's less stigmatizing, according to advocates who have been calling for a change of name. The disease ...

The World Health Organization announced on Monday that it is renaming monkeypox as “mpox,” citing concerns about “racist and stigmatizing language” surrounding the original name of the disease. The ...

The Biden administration plans to officially switch how it refers to the disease once dubbed "monkeypox" to use the new name "mpox" instead, adopting a long-awaited renaming recommendation announced ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported more than 13,000 cases of monkeypox in the U.S. Some social media users claim that the outbreak is only affecting gay men. "Since Fake News ...

Robert Hart is a former London-based Forbes senior reporter. As monkeypox cases rise, public health experts and officials around the world are scrambling to contain the outbreak, but as scientists ...