WHO warns festivals could escalate spread of monkeypox

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designated a notifiable disease by the UK Health Security Agency, meaning doctors in England will be required to notify their local council or Health Protection Team if they suspect a patient has monkeypox.

Cases in the UK rose to over 300 yesterday.In a warning regarding the disease’s spread across Europe and the US, the WHO said large-scale events like festivals could “provide further context where amplification may occur”.

The virus is spread via very close, prolonged contact, either through inhaling infected droplets or through direct contact with “infected bodily fluids, lesions or scabs on the skin, or contaminated objects, such as bedding or clothes”.The WHO Europe’s regional director Dr.

Hans Henri Kluge said in a statement: “Rapid, amplified transmission has occurred in the context of the recent lifting of pandemic restrictions on international travel and events.