Britain Reports Four New Mpox Cases

2024-11-10

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  • British health officials say they have identified four cases of the new, highly infectious version of mpox that first appeared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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  • The announcement marks the first time the variant has caused a group of illnesses outside of Africa.
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  • Scientists said the risk to the public remains low.
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  • Officials announced the first case of the new form of mpox in Britain last week.
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  • Officials said the person who was being treated at a London hospital had recently travelled to countries in Africa with ongoing outbreaks.
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  • This week, the British Health Security Agency said it had now identified three additional cases.
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  • All of them lived in the same household as the first patient.
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  • The new cases are also being treated at a hospital in London.
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  • Susan Hopkins is chief medical advisor of the British Health Security Agency.
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  • She said, "Mpox is very infectious in households with close contact and so it is not unexpected to see further cases within the same household."
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  • The new variant of mpox was first reported earlier this year in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or the DRC.
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  • Scientists believe it causes milder symptoms that are harder to notice.
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  • As a result, it might be easier to spread because people may not know they are infected.
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  • Its spread in the DRC and in other parts of Africa caused the World Health Organization to declare the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern in August.
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  • Britain recorded more than 3,000 cases of another version of mpox during a 2022 outbreak that affected more than 100 countries.
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  • The new variant of mpox has also caused outbreaks in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
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  • Single cases in travelers have also been reported in Sweden, India, Germany and Thailand.
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  • To date, there have been about 43,000 suspect cases of mpox in Africa, including more than 1,000 deaths, mostly in the DRC.
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  • On Wednesday, the WHO said it had given about 900,000 vaccine doses to nine African countries struggling with mpox epidemics.
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  • I'm John Russell.