My friends are sick with this and it is not nice.

It is not a nice virus to have.

Two U.S. cities, New York and San Francisco, have declared monkeypox a health emergency.

And three states, New York, Illinois, and California, have declared states of emergency, too,

likely because they've confirmed higher numbers of cases than most other states.

Nationwide, we are at about 6,600 cases of monkeypox as the CDC.

But coming up, two doctors tell us there is a difference between taking this virus seriously

and everyone just losing their issue for it.

Sex is fun, sex is natural.

I don't want to tell people not to have sex.

We don't need alarmism that makes the world seem even more full of despair than it actually

is.

And today explained what you need to know about monkeypox.

Hey there, it's Noel.

In this episode of today, we have some frank descriptions of sexual behavior.

If that's not your thing or if you're listening with young kids, we will see you back here

tomorrow, same place, same time.

Karen Landman, medical doctor, senior health reporter at Vox.

The WHO says monkeypox is a public health emergency, which means what exactly?

So what it means is that as the WHO has been following this outbreak and gathering information

about it, they have seen that it is changing and it's continuing to spread and it continues

to exist outside the borders of places where we normally see this virus exist and that

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