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London, September 2: The country’s health authorities say a new strain of monkeypox virus has been discovered in the UK. UK health authorities have confirmed that someone has been diagnosed with monkeypox in connection with a recent trip to West Africa.
“Preliminary genome sequencing conducted by the UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) indicated that this case does not have an outbreak strain currently circulating in the UK,” UKHSA said in a statement. UK monkeypox cases surpass 1,000, world total now 3,413: UKSHA report.
The person has been taken to the High Risk Infectious Diseases (HCID) Unit at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital on the standing recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Pathogens (ACDP).
Contact tracing is ongoing for close contacts of this individual. So far, no more related cases have been identified. UKHSA Incident Director Dr Sophia Maki said: “We are working to contact individuals who had been in close contact with this case before infection was confirmed to assess and advise them if necessary.”
She added: “UKHSA and the NHS have well-established and robust infection control procedures in place to deal with imported cases of infectious disease, which will be strictly followed and the risk to the public is very low.”
Dr. Maki reminds all those planning to travel to West and Central Africa to be wary of monkeypox symptoms. ACDP has previously recommended that monkeypox imported directly from West Africa and cases caused by Clade I of this virus should still be classified as HCID because we cannot predict their characteristics.
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