monkeypox

The county health department has doubled vaccination appointments to 200 per day, Monday through Friday.

Missteps and delays have hampered the U.S. effort to vaccinate people against monkeypox. Now state health officials and community members are trying to adapt to a controversial "dose sparing" plan.

Animal carriers of the virus include various rodents, dogs, primates, hedgehogs and shrews, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The risk of contracting monkeypox is still low in the U.S., but colleges are already seeing cases.

Is it a sexually transmitted disease? Can you get it on a crowded bus? Trying on clothes? We talk to specialists about how this virus is transmitted and what kinds of precautions are warranted.

The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.