Eurosurv. Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022

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• Roberto Vivancos^1,2,3 , Charlotte Anderson¹ , Paula Blomquist¹ , Sooria Balasegaram¹ , Anita Bell¹ , Louise Bishop¹ , Colin S Brown^1,4 , Yimmy Chow¹ , Obaghe Edeghere¹ , Isaac Florence¹ , Sarah Logan⁵ , Petra Manley¹ , William Crowe⁶ , Andrew McAuley⁷ , Ananda Giri Shankar⁸ , Borja Mora-Peris⁹ , Karthik Paranthaman¹ , Mateo Prochazka¹ , Cian Ryan¹ , David Simons¹ , Richard Vipond¹ , Chloe Byers¹ , Nicholas A. Watkins¹ , UKHSA Monkeypox Incident Management team¹⁰ , Will Welfare¹ , Elizabeth Whittaker⁹ , Claire Dewsnap¹¹ , Allegra Wilson¹ , Yvonne Young¹ , Meera Chand¹ , Steven Riley¹ , Susan Hopkins^1,4

Between 7 and 25 May, 86 monkeypox cases were confirmed in the United Kingdom (UK). Only one case is known to have travelled to a monkeypox virus (MPXV) endemic country. Seventy-nine cases with information were male and 66 reported being gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men. This is the first reported sustained MPXV transmission in the UK, with human-to-human transmission through close contacts, including in sexual networks. Improving case ascertainment and onward-transmission preventive measures are ongoing.

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.22.2200422#html_fulltext