Dog catches monkeypox in first reported human-to-pet transmission

An Italian greyhound seems to have caught monkeypox from humans after he slept in bed with his owners, who were both sick with the virus. The four-year-old dog broke out in lesions, "including abdomen pustules," according to medical science journal The Lancet, and tested positive for monkeypox 12 days after his owners came down with it. — Read the rest