'The consequences don't seem to be very serious.' PM Boris Johnson says monkeypox is a 'very rare' disease but the UK Health Security Agency is 'keeping an eye on it' and looking at the circumstances of transmission. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233
Spain – 30 confirmed and 15 suspectedFigures include reports this weekend so may not tally with WHO figures, which were last updated on Saturday
She said the risk to the general population"remains extremely low at the moment" but people"need to be alert to it". "It starts as red spots and moves to vesicles - those are blister-type lesions that are a bit like chickenpox," Dr Hopkins said.Professor Paul Hunter at the Norwich School of Medicine at the University of East Anglia told Sky News:"We have actually seen an outbreak in this country in the past, in about I think it was 2018, where a small outbreak with a travel related case who then passed the infection on to healthcare workers.
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