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The United States is preparing to give monkeypox vaccines to close contacts of people infected and to deploy treatments, with five cases now either confirmed or probable and the number likely to rise, officials said Monday. There is one confirmed US infection so far, in Massachusetts, and four other cases…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified four presumptive and one confirmed cases of monkeypox in the United States, and public health officials expect physicians to diagnose more Americans with the virus in the coming days.

WASHINGTON — House Democrats and immigrant advocates called on the Senate to vote against any legislation that would make pandemic-era asylum restrictions permanent, after a court ruling Friday that keeps the border controls in place for now.

Parents hoping to get their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19 have some encouraging news

The CDC says unlike COVID-19, monkeypox is a well-known entity, and both vaccines and antivirals are available to help stem the outbreak.

It comes as cases of the virus have been reported in more than a dozen countries

Watch for rash and these symptoms as first U.S. monkeypox cases emerge.

House Democrats called on the Senate to reject any legislation that would make pandemic-era asylum restrictions permanent.

BALTIMORE — You no longer need a medical card to legally get high on cannabis in Maryland.

MEIGS COUNTY, Tenn. — At a glance, it seemed like a Southern pandemic success story in a most unlikely place.

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks