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. 2022 Jun;27(22):2200422.
doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.22.2200422.

Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022

Roberto Vivancos  1   2   3 , Charlotte Anderson  1 , Paula Blomquist  1 , Sooria Balasegaram  1 , Anita Bell  1 , Louise Bishop  1 , Colin S Brown  1   4 , Yimmy Chow  1 , Obaghe Edeghere  1 , Isaac Florence  1 , Sarah Logan  5 , Petra Manley  1 , William Crowe  6 , Andrew McAuley  7 , Ananda Giri Shankar  8 , Borja Mora-Peris  9 , Karthik Paranthaman  1 , Mateo Prochazka  1 , Cian Ryan  1 , David Simons  1 , Richard Vipond  1 , Chloe Byers  1 , Nicholas A Watkins  1 ; UKHSA Monkeypox Incident Management team  10 ; Will Welfare  1 , Elizabeth Whittaker  9 , Claire Dewsnap  11 , Allegra Wilson  1 , Yvonne Young  1 , Meera Chand  1 , Steven Riley  1 , Susan Hopkins  1   4 ; Monkeypox Incident Management Team
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Community transmission of monkeypox in the United Kingdom, April to May 2022

Roberto Vivancos et al. Euro Surveill. 2022 Jun.

Erratum in

  • Erratum for Euro Surveill. 2022;27(22).
    Eurosurveillance editorial team. Eurosurveillance editorial team. Euro Surveill. 2022 Jun;27(23):220609c. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2022.27.23.220609c. Euro Surveill. 2022. PMID: 35686569 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

Abstract

Between 7 and 25 May, 86 monkeypox cases were confirmed in the United Kingdom (UK). Only one case is known to have travelled to a monkeypox virus (MPXV) endemic country. Seventy-nine cases with information were male and 66 reported being gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men. This is the first reported sustained MPXV transmission in the UK, with human-to-human transmission through close contacts, including in sexual networks. Improving case ascertainment and onward-transmission preventive measures are ongoing.

Keywords: Monkeypox; United Kingdom; monkeypox virus; orthopoxvirus; transmission; viruses; zoonoses.

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Conflict of interest: None declared.

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Distribution of laboratory-confirmed monkeypox cases, by symptom onset date and associated incident, United Kingdom, 20 April−25 May (n = 72 with known onset dates)
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