How Containable Is Monkey Pox?

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Monkey pox is not as easily spread as covet, for example. We only usually see cases linked to travel to those countries where it's endemic. The varos probably came into europe 20 18, 20 19, en. One or two cases were imported from nageria into yuke and other places. If anybody had you rash in central london, nobody's going to think of monkey pock so that gave the opportunity for it. Just a thin ly amplification came whell you have a lot of people gathering and well, very close contact.

The sudden surge of monkeypox cases outside Africa has alarmed public health authorities around the world. In Europe and North America it’s the first time community transmission has been recorded among people with no links to west or central Africa. So what is happening? Ian Sample talks to virologist Oyewale Tomori about why monkeypox is flaring up, whether we should fear it, and what we can learn from countries such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which have been tackling this virus for decades. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod