Symptoms of the monkeypox virus are shown on a patient's hand, from a 2003 case in the United States. In most instances, the disease causes fever and painful, pus-filled blisters. New cases in the United Kingdom, Spain and Portugal are spreading possibly through sexual contact, which had not previously been linked to monkeypox transmission.(CDC / Getty Images)

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is raising the alarm about the potential risk for new cases of Mpox, previously known as monkeypox, to emerge this summer.

Dr. David Pate, former CEO of St. Luke's Health System, joined Idaho Matters to talk more about all of this.