US monkeypox cases climb, another reported in Colorado

The number of monkeypox cases in the U.S. has climbed to 12, with a second case reported in Colorado. 

In a press release from the state's Department of Public Health and Environment, the state assured Friday that the risk of catching the virus remains low. 

"The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Public Health Laboratory has confirmed a second presumptive monkeypox case and is awaiting CDC confirmation," it wrote. "The person who acquired the virus was a close contact of a person known to public health as a presumptive case of...