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UK logs another 45 monkeypox cases as outbreak continues to sweep country

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Another 45 monkeypox cases have been spotted in the UK, health bosses revealed today amid growing pressure on ministers to urgently buy more vaccines.

Officials are scrambling to contain the tropical virus, which is usually only seen in Africa.

Dozens of countries around the world, including the US, Spain and Portugal, have been affected and the World Health Organization said there is a ‘real’ threat monkeypox could become endemic in Europe unless the current cluster is stamped out urgently.

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Britain’s monkeypox outbreak is linked to ‘gay bars, saunas and Grindr’

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Britain’s monkeypox cases are linked to gay bars, saunas and dating apps, health chiefs revealed as the cumulative number of cases in the UK nears 200.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said more than 60 per cent of domestic infections have been among gay and bisexual men, with more than 86 per cent based in the epicentre London. Only two cases have been women. 

Most of the country’s infections — 87 per cent — were among people aged 20

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Monkeypox outbreak may have been imported to UK FOUR YEARS ago, says ex WHO doctor

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Dr David Heymann, who used to head the WHO’s emergencies department,

Monkeypox may have been spreading under the radar for four years, an ex-World Health Organization (WHO) official has claimed.

Professor David Heymann, a former former director-general for health security and environment at the WHO, said the current global outbreak may date back to a handful of isolated cases in the UK in 2018.

Two Britons were diagnosed with the tropical disease in September 2018 after returning from Nigeria. A

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Global monkeypox outbreak was ‘waiting to happen’, scientists say

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Eradicating smallpox may have left the world vulnerable to monkeypox, experts have warned amid growing fears about the current outbreak sweeping the world.

Britons were routinely offered smallpox jabs until the 1970s, when the scheme was deemed no longer necessary because the virus had been beaten into submission. Similar programmes were wound down across the world at the same time.

Scientists say the waning immunity from the mammoth inoculation campaigns may help explain why monkeypox outbreaks are becoming more common

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Monkeypox outbreak may have been sparked by sex at two raves in Belgium and Spain, WHO expert warns

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Dr David Heymann, who used to head the WHO’s emergencies department, said someone with the tell-tale monkeypox lesions likely ‘spread it to others when there was sexual or close physical contact’

Sexual transmission at two festivals in Europe may have sparked the world’s escalating monkeypox outbreak, a World Health Organization expert has claimed.

Dr David Heymann, who used to head the WHO’s emergencies department, revealed it was the leading theory behind the origins of the current cluster of cases.

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WHO convenes emergency monkeypox meeting amid growing fears about international outbreak

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World Health Organization bosses will hold an emergency monkeypox amid growing fears about the international outbreak.

Eleven countries have now detected the tropical virus, which is usually only spotted within Africa.

Germany and Belgium today became the latest nations to declare monkeypox cases, while France and Australia announced patients had tested positive overnight.

Experts on the UN agency are set to discuss the unusually high rates among gay and bisexual men, it was claimed today.

The panelists, reported to include

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Britain’s monkeypox outbreak ‘DOUBLES in size’: Eleven new cases ‘will be announced TODAY’

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The monkeypox outbreak in Britain has doubled in size, health officials will announce today.

Britain has been stocking up on thousands of monkeypox vaccines and treatments amid fears the current spate of cases is only the tip of the iceberg.

Nine Britons had been diagnosed with the contagious virus so far but a further 11 are set to be confirmed today, The Times reported.

The majority of cases are not linked, suggesting it is spreading more widely, although ministers are

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Health chiefs probe gay bars and saunas amid monkeypox outbreak in UK

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Monkeypox contact tracers are probing gay bars and spas as they scramble to contain an outbreak of the rare disease.

Health chiefs in the UK are ‘actively investigating’ venues visited by six homosexual and bisexual men who tested positive in the past week.

They include bars, clubs and saunas, according to an update by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Six of Britain’s nine confirmed cases are men who have sex with men, which officials say is ‘highly suggestive of spread

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Publisher’s Platform: Infant Formula Cronobacter and Salmonella Outbreak: Ich habe noch Fragen

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Ich habe es vielleicht übersehen, aber hat jemand Antworten auf diese grundlegenden Fragen erhalten? Frage 1: Hat die Tatsache, dass Cronobacter sakazakii nur in Minnesota meldepflichtig ist, angesichts des Beginns der Krankheiten Anfang September 2021 die Untersuchung behindert und die Ankündigung des Ausbruchs und den Rückruf verzögert?

Frage 2: Warum wurde bei (uns bekannten) Erkrankungen, die vom 6. September 2021 bis mindestens 18. Dezember 2021 auftraten, der erste Rückruf erst am 17. Februar 2022 und der erweiterte Rückruf am 28.

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Daily Covid cases see biggest fall in Omicron outbreak: UK reports 120,821 new infections

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Daily Covid cases fell by nearly 45 per cent in a week today in the biggest drop since Omicron took off — as an expert claimed the UK would be the first country in the northern hemisphere to tame the pandemic.

There were 120,821 new positive tests logged across the country over the past 24 hours, according to Government dashboard data, down from the pandemic high of 218,000 last Tuesday. It marks the sixth day in a row infections have

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