Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022

Vivancos, Roberto; Anderson, Charlotte; Blomquist, Paula; Balasegaram, Sooria; Bell, Anita; Bishop, Louise; Brown, Colin; Chow, Yimmy; Edeghere, Obaghe; Florence, Isaac; Logan, Sarah; Manley, Petra; Crowe, William; McAuley, Andrew; Giri Shankar, Ananda; Mora‐Peris, Borja; Paranthaman, Karthik; Prochazka, Mateo; Ryan, Cian; Simons, David; Vipond, Richard; Byers, Chloe; A. Watkins, Nicholas; Monkeypox Incident Management team, UKHSA; Welfare, William; Whittaker, Elizabeth; Dewsnap, Claire; Wilson, Allegra; Young, Yvonne; Chand, Meera; Riley, Steven; Hopkins, Susan

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2022.27.22.2200422

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Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022

Published in Eurosurveillance • Jun 2, 2022

Authors:

Roberto Vivancos

Charlotte Anderson

Paula Blomquist

Abstract

Between 7 and 25 May, 86 monkeypox cases were confirmed in the United Kingdom (UK). Only one case is known to have travelled to a monkeypox virus (MPXV) endemic country. Seventy-nine cases with information were male and 66 reported being gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men. This is the...

Subject

Monkeypox

Transmission (telecommunications)

Demography

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