Today, Monday, the Health Security Agency in the United Kingdom (Britain) announced that the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox in the country has risen to 470, as of Sunday.
This was reported by the British channel (Sky News) in urgent news today, Monday, without giving further details in this regard.
It is noteworthy that the monkeypox virus causes symptoms of fever and a rash that leads to the emergence of pimples on the skin, and it is usually mild, but there are two dangerous strains of the virus, one of which leads to deaths of up to 10% and the other to the death of about 1% of infected people.