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UK Reports 71 New Cases of Monkeypox


Mon 30 May 2022 | 11:54 PM
Israa Farhan

On Monday, British media reported that the UK Health Security Agency had detected 71 new cases of Monkeypox in England.

The media indicated that the total number of monkeypox cases recorded in the United Kingdom since May 7 has reached 179.

The virus first appeared among humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, when a 9-year-old child contracted it in an area from which smallpox disappeared in 1968.

Monkeypox is mainly found in tropical rainforest regions of central and western Africa, but the disease has appeared in other parts of the world in recent days. Its symptoms include fever, rash, and swollen lymph nodes.

Other experts considered that the spread of this epidemic in Europe may indicate new mutations that are able to spread outside rainy tropical environments.