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

Eurosurveillance - Tập 27 Số 22 - 2022
Roberto Vivancos1,2,3, Charlotte Anderson3, Paula Blomquist3, Sooria Balasegaram3, Anita Bell3, Louise Bishop3, Colin Brown4,3, Yimmy Chow3, Obaghe Edeghere3, Isaac Florence3, Sarah Logan5, Petra Manley3, William Crowe6, Andrew McAuley7, Ananda Giri Shankar8, Borja Mora-Peris9, Karthik Paranthaman3, Mateo Prochazka3, Cian Ryan3, David Simons3, Richard Vipond3, Chloe Byers3, Nicholas A. Watkins3, William Welfare3, Elizabeth Whittaker9, Claire Dewsnap10, Allegra Wilson3, Yvonne Young3, Meera Chand3, Steven Riley3, Susan Hopkins4,3
1NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, UKHSA, England, United Kingdom
2NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Gastrointestinal Infections, UKHSA, England, United Kingdom
3UK Health Security Agency, London, England, United Kingdom
4NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, UKHSA, England, United Kingdom
5University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, England, United Kingdom
6Health and Social Care Northern Ireland, Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
7Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
8Public Health Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
9Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, England, United Kingdom
10The British Association for Sexual Health & HIV, England & Wales, United Kingdom

Tóm tắt

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.

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