MAY 20, 2022: Eleven more cases are announced, meaning Britain's monkeypox outbreak have doubled to 20. Fears began to grow that infections are going undetected. The cases were based in the South East and London. MAY 19, 2022: Two more cases were revealed, with no travel links or connections to other cases. The spate of cases was described as 'unusual' and 'surprising' as experts warn gay and bisexual men to look out for new rashes. Three of these cases are in London, while one of their contacts is infected in the north east of England. MAY 16, 2022: Four more cases were announced, bringing the UK total to seven. The other isolated at home and did not need hospital treatment. One of these individuals received care at the expert infectious disease unit at St Mary's Hospital in London. The infected pair lived in the same household but had not been in contact with the case announced one week earlier. MAY 14, 2022: Two more cases were confirmed in London. The person received care at the expert infectious disease unit at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London.
MAY 7, 2022: A person was diagnosed with Monkeypox in England after recently travelling to Nigeria. Both patients had travel links to Nigeria.Ī third person living with one of the cases was diagnosed and admitted to hospital, bringing the total number ever to seven. MAY 25, 2021: Two cases of monkeypox were identified in north Wales. They received treatment at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.ĭECEMBER 3, 2019: A patient was diagnosed with monkeypox in England, marking the fourth ever case. The individual worked at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and treated the second Monkeypox case. SEPTEMBER 26, 2018: A third person is diagnosed with monkeypox. They were treated at Blackpool Victoria Hospital and Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Instead, the patient is though to have picked up the infection when travelling in Nigeria. There is no link with the first case in Cornwall. SEPTEMBER 11, 2018: A second UK monkeypox case is confirmed in Blackpool.
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They were treated at the Royal Free Hospital in London. SEPTEMBER 8, 2018: Monkeypox appeared in the UK for the first time in a Nigerian naval officer who was visiting Cornwall for training.
All the human infections followed contact with an infected pet and all patients recovered. Cases were reported in both humans and pet prairie dogs. Behind the UK, Spain (133), Portugal (100) and Germany (38) have logged the next highest number of confirmed cases.ġ958: Monkeypox was first discovered when an outbreak of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept for research.ġ970: The first human case was recorded in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the infection has been reported in a number of central and western African countries since then.Ģ003: A Monkeypox outbreak occurred in the US after rodents were imported from Africa. In total, there have been 617 confirmed cases of monkeypox across the globe, with 129 more suspected since the first infection was found at the start of May. Five of the infections were logged in England, while one was spotted in Scotland. It comes as the UKHSA today confirmed another six infections, bringing the nation's total since the outbreak began on May 6 to 196. Officials said that contact tracing teams had linked the outbreak back to 'gay bars, saunas and the use of dating apps in the UK and abroad'. MailOnline revealed last week the world's biggest gay dating app Grindr had alerted to users of monkeypox symptoms. Most of the UK patients caught the virus in the UK rather than abroad, which is significant because previously the tropical disease was confined to a small number of people with travel links to Africa. And 111 cases are known to be men who have sex with men. Most of the country's infections - 87 per cent - were among people aged 20 to 49. 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. 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.