As more cases of monkeypox are detected in Europe and North America, scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks in Africa say they are baffled by the unusual disease's spread in the West.
are detected in Europe and North America, some scientists who have monitored numerous outbreaks in Africa say they are baffled by the unusual disease's spread in developed countries.
Outbreaks in Nigeria, which reports about 3,000 monkeypox cases a year, are usually in rural areas, where people have close contact with infected rats and squirrels, according to Tomori. He said the disease is not spread very easily and that many cases are likely missed.“Unless the person ends up in an advanced health centre, they don’t attract the attention of the surveillance system,” he said.
On Friday, Britain's Health Security Agency reported 11 new monkeypox cases, saying that “a notable proportion” of the most recent infections in the U.K. and Europe have been in young men with no history of travel to Africa who were gay, bisexual, or had sex with men. The same could be true of monkeypox, Tomori said. “We would have to go back through our records to see if this might have happened, like between a husband and wife,” he said.
Scientists said that while it's possible the outbreak's first patient caught the disease while in Africa, what's happening now is exceptional.
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