Case series of the first five human infections with monkeypox virus clade Ib and report on the public health response, United Kingdom, October to November 2024.
Journal: Euro Surveillance : Bulletin Europeen Sur Les Maladies Transmissibles = European Communicable Disease Bulletin
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Abstract
We report two importations of monkeypox virus clade Ib infection to the United Kingdom in 2024. The first was a traveller returning from Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda, the second from Uganda. Both presented with fever and typical skin lesions; 147 contacts were followed up, 19 vaccinated with MVA-BN. Three household contacts of the first individual, including two children, became infected. These are the first reported autochthonous transmissions of clade Ib in Europe, and first paediatric cases outside the African continent.
Authors
Muhammad Alvi, Merav Kliner, William Welfare, N Gordon, Sherine Thomas, Simon Padfield, Hannah Emmett, Ellen Heinsbroek, Gareth Hughes, Natalie Groves, Eileen Gallagher, Steven Pullan, Amy Belfield, Catherine Houlihan, Tommy Rampling, Geraldine O'hara, Anne Tunbridge, Jake Dunning, Elizabeth Whittaker, Alejandra Alonso, Mike Beadsworth, Brendan Payne, Meera Chand, Susan Hopkins, Gillian Armstrong
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