Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

When experts in the United Kingdom confirmed the first case of monkeypox on May 7 this year, epidemiologist Andrea McCollum and her colleagues at the United States Centers for Disease Control and ...

The monkeypox outbreak in the United States appears to be slowing down, but numerous states have reported cases of monkeypox in kids, from New York to Oregon, Texas, Maine, Florida, Indiana, ...

Monkeypox can cause a variety of symptoms, especially in the early stage before the characteristic rash appears. Some of these early signs may look similar to other illnesses including influenza or ...

With global spread progressing around the United States and within North Carolina, there have been claims that a smallpox vaccine can be used to combat monkeypox. Claims regarding the effectiveness of ...

For dozens of countries that do not typically encounter monkeypox, the fast-moving outbreak has caught both health officials and patients off guard. The World Health Organization declared monkeypox a ...