Amid a futile two-year battle with COVID, the U.S. finds itself facing another viral outbreak as cases of monkeypox reach alarming levels.
The World Health Organization and the Biden administration have declared monkeypox a public health emergency, as cases in the U.S. surpass 10,000. Monkeypox is part of the same family of viruses as the variola virus, which causes smallpox, although its symptoms are milder. Commonly spread through skin-to-skin contact, monkeypox is not a respiratory virus like COVID, and should have a relatively harder time passing from person to person.
