'Not fizzling out!' UK breaks daily record for new monkeypox cases – concern 'justified'

Health protection teams are tracing contacts of positive cases and are advising those at highest risk to isolate at home for up to 21 days.

According to the UKHSA, community transmission is occurring in the UK with multiple generations of spread.

Illness appears to be generally mild, consistent with other information about the West African clade.

There are two clades of monkeypox – a Central African clade with a reported mortality of 10 percent and a West African clade with a reported mortality of one percent from epidemiological cluster and outbreak reports from Africa.