Second case of monkeypox confirmed in north
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- 01 Jun 2022
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A seond case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Northern Ireland, the Public Health Agency (PHA) has said.
It follows the north's first case being recorded last week.
To date, 190 cases have been detected across the UK.
The Republic's first case was confirmed at the weekend.
HSE boss Paul Reid said the Republic has secured an order of vaccines against the disease.
Chief Medical Officer Sir Michael McBride had warned that further cases will emerge here. However, Sir Michael said he was confident that stringent public health measures would stop the disease from becoming endemic in the UK.
“The key messages are that this is not an infection which is readily spread between people but can be by close contact," he said.
“The risk to the general population is considered to be low.”
He added: “I can certainly say that I am fairly confident we will see further cases.
“I think that given the length of the incubation period and given the number of cases that we have seen across the United Kingdom, across Europe and globally, we will see more cases.
“What we want to do is to prevent this becoming established as an endemic infection in the United Kingdom because it isn’t at this time.
Health chiefs have also stressed that chances of infection remain low. Read More...
