The disease gets its name from its discovery in monkeys in 1958, but humans are usually thought to get monkeypox from African rodents.

ATLANTA — Zoo Atlanta welcomed a baby male Schmidt's guenon, also known as a red-tail monkey, earlier this month. The monkeys are normally found in rainforests and swamplands in middle Africa and get ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Louisville Zoo is welcoming some new additions to its African Outpost exhibits. Meet 8-year-old Nali (pronounced like nah-lee) and her daughters 3-year-old Ate (pronounced like ...

WASHINGTON -- The ancestry of the virus that caused the AIDS epidemic has been traced to two strains of a virus found in monkeys in Africa. The viruses probably passed into chimpanzees when the apes ...

(CNN) — Romania is recalling its ambassador to Kenya back to Bucharest and has apologized after its envoy in Nairobi compared a monkey to African diplomats during a meeting he was chairing. “The ...

An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is 'poised for spillover' to humans, according to new research. An ...