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Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- With seven people in the U.S. now confirmed or presumed to have monkeypox, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the risk remains low and there's no evidence the virus has evolved to be more transmissible. "This is not COVID," Jennifer McQuiston, deputy director of the Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology at the CDC, said during a media briefing Monday. There is one confirmed positive case in Massachusetts. There is one presumptive positive case in New York, one in Was...

The U.S.is responding to a request for the release of monkeypox vaccine from the nation's stockpile as a global outbreak of cases is under investigation.

The unprecedented monkeypox outbreak appears to be a “random event” stemming from two recent raves in Europe involving sex, a leading World Health Organization adviser said Monday, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the initial symptoms can mimic those of an STD.

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So far, 5 Americans are likely infected with monkeypox, the CDC said Monday. Health officials are trying to determine how the cases may be connected.