But right now in this current outbreak, we really are only seeing cases among people who are reporting very close, often intimate or sexual contact with somebody else who has monkeys talk.

Earlier this month, President Joe Biden's administration declared the outbreak a public health emergency. Since then, cases have continued to rise domestically and abroad.

And we know from previous outbreaks that monkey pox spreads through direct contact with infected body fluids or lesions on the body of someone who has monkey pox or less commonly direct contact with ...