CDC estimates 1.7 million gay and bisexual men face highest risk from monkeypox - CNBC

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters on a call Thursday that gay and bisexual men who are HIV positive or who are taking medicines, called PREP, to reduce their chance of contracting HIV face the greatest health risk from monkeypox.

has secured 1.1 million doses of the two-dose vaccine Jynneos so far, according to the Health and Human Services Department.

Sexual health clinics that serve the LGBTQ community have said the vaccination campaign needs to expand to anyone who thinks they're at risk of getting monkeypox to bring the outbreak under control.

But that's not a successful public health strategy," Carpenter said.

Monkeypox has been spreading primarily through skin-to-skin contact during sex among gay and bisexual men, public health officials say.

But public health officials have repeatedly emphasized that anyone can catch the disease through physical contact with someone who has it or contaminated materials such as bedsheets and towels.

If this gets out of that community, people have totally lost the capacity to contain this," he said.