Employees and children at an Illinois daycare center are being screened for monkeypox after an employee tested positive for the disease, health officials said.

"An adult at a daycare center in the Rantoul area has tested positive for a case of monkeypox," Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) Director Dr.

NEW YORK CITY, ILLINOIS DECLARE STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER MONKEYPOX.

BIDEN ADMINISTRATION DECLARES MONKEYPOX A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

San Diego health officials note that the public emergency with Monkeypox is "fundamentally different" than the COVID-19 pandemic.  (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

On Thursday, the Biden administration declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency

"In light of evolving circumstances on the ground, I am declaring a public health emergency on #monkeypox," Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra wrote in a tweet

"That's why today's public health emergency declaration on the virus is critical to confronting this outbreak with the urgency it warrants."