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The head of the World Health Organization has suggested that men who have sex with men temporarily limit their number of sexual partners while monkeypox cases increase within their community — a shift in messaging from the global health agency days after it raised its threat alert level for the monkeypox outbreak. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the comments Wednesday during a news briefing in which he said 98 percent of monkeypox cases have been reported in men who have sex with men. Tedros said “this is an outbreak that can be stopped,” as long as governments take...

OK, it's nearly summer, and it's been really wet, so we're getting our annual fix of stories about how there will be more mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus this year. This comes at a time when we're still fighting the spread of SARS and we're still wary that some of those palsied cattle in Canada might spread mad cow disease our way. Now comes the latest pestilence, which erupted over the weekend and was previously unknown in our part of the world: dozens of people in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana have contracted an affliction called ``monkeypox virus.'' Health officials say...