In a recently published study in The BMJ, scientists discovered differences between this monkeypox outbreak and previous outbreaks after investigating 197 people who contracted the virus. So far to date, there have been no reports of death. ![]() Additional cases were noted in London but were unrelated to the first case suggesting unlinked chains of infection. The first confirmed case was on May 7th from a person who had traveled to the United Kingdom from Nigeria. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee. “This is a virus that belongs to the same group as the smallpox virus however, it’s a much milder and less deadly form of it,” says Dr. While usually confined to animals, as previous outbreaks have shown, it can also jump to humans. Monkeypox is a virus that originated in animals in West and Central Africa. ![]() A rare condition called monkeypox has been confirmed in the United States and Europe, with more suspected cases worldwide.
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