Mary Wilson
Well-known member
UK HealthSecurity Agency
This epidemiological overview provides an update to the number of confirmed and highly probable mpox cases in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Mpox is a zoonotic infection, caused by the monkeypox virus, that occurs mostly in West and Central Africa. Prior to 2022, cases diagnosed in the UK had been either imported from countries where mpox is endemic or contacts with documented epidemiological links to imported cases. Between 2018 and 2021, there had been 7 cases of mpox in the UK. Of these, 4 were imported, 2 were cases in household contacts, and one was a case in a health care worker involved in the care of an imported case. There was no documented community transmission in previous outbreaks.
The UK strategy for mpox control is to eliminate person-to-person transmission of mpox in the UK. Disease elimination is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region as the absence of indigenously acquired cases for a period of at least 3 months, in the presence of a well-performing surveillance system. Current epidemiological situation up to 30 June 2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...outbreak-epidemiological-overview-6-july-2023
This epidemiological overview provides an update to the number of confirmed and highly probable mpox cases in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Mpox is a zoonotic infection, caused by the monkeypox virus, that occurs mostly in West and Central Africa. Prior to 2022, cases diagnosed in the UK had been either imported from countries where mpox is endemic or contacts with documented epidemiological links to imported cases. Between 2018 and 2021, there had been 7 cases of mpox in the UK. Of these, 4 were imported, 2 were cases in household contacts, and one was a case in a health care worker involved in the care of an imported case. There was no documented community transmission in previous outbreaks.
The UK strategy for mpox control is to eliminate person-to-person transmission of mpox in the UK. Disease elimination is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region as the absence of indigenously acquired cases for a period of at least 3 months, in the presence of a well-performing surveillance system. Current epidemiological situation up to 30 June 2023
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...outbreak-epidemiological-overview-6-july-2023