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Monkeypox is now spreading around the world, and is putting the U.S. public health system once again on the front lines in a battle to keep the country safe.

When asked if monkeypox represents another pandemic like COVID-19, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the CDC has been responding aggressively, educating health professionals and patients alike. "We have been working extraordinarily hard, and we are still in a position where we can contain this," she said.

CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jonathan LaPook asked, "There's no crystal ball, of course, but do you see monkeypox getting out more widely to the general population?"