The UK’s most recent cases are predominantly in gay men, bisexual men and men who have sex with men, according to the UKHSA. “These latest cases, together with reports of cases in countries across Europe, confirm our initial concerns that there could be spread of monkeypox within our communities,” she said. The monkeypox virus is now spreading from person to person in the countries with known cases, Susan Hopkins at the UKHSA said in the organisation’s latest update. Two of the other UK cases are linked to this first one, but the latest four cases in the UK have no known links to previous cases, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA).
They developed a rash on 5 May and were hospitalised on 6 May, but have fully recovered. The first person confirmed to be infected in the UK had travelled to Nigeria. That isn’t yet clear, say Kraemer and Brownstein. “It’s probably more widespread than we are currently detecting,” says Kraemer. Kraemer and Brownstein think these cases could be the tip of the iceberg. Australia has one confirmed and one suspected case. Canada has one confirmed and 21 suspected cases. The US has one confirmed and one suspected case.
France and Sweden have one confirmed case each. Italy has two suspected cases, while Belgium has two suspected cases and one confirmed. Portugal has 14 confirmed and 20 suspected cases, while Spain has seven confirmed and 24 suspected cases. The UK has nine confirmed cases, mostly in London. How many cases are there in the current outbreak?Īt time of publication, 109 monkeypox cases are either confirmed or suspected worldwide, according to a list of reports being compiled by Moritz Kraemer at the University of Oxford, John Brownstein at Boston Children’s Hospital and their colleagues. The first human case was identified in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1970. It was first spotted in monkeys in labs in 1958, hence the name.
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