The British government says it takes the subject “very seriously” while stressing that the risk for the population as a whole was “extremely weak”.
Le Monde with AFP
The United Kingdom records new variole cases of the monkey every day, a manager of the British health security agency said on Sunday May 22, a subject that the government says it takes “very seriously”. “We detect more cases every day,” said Susan Hopkins, the medical official of the British Health Safety Agency (UKHSA), at the BBC.
Last week, twenty patients had been identified and a new assessment will be published on Monday “with weekend figures,” said Ms. Hopkins.
New UKHSA guidelines recommend contact cases most exposed to variolate patients to isolate themselves for three weeks and avoid contact with immunocompromised people, pregnant women and less children 12, reported the Skynews channel on Sunday. “In the cases we have seen so far in the United Kingdom, the vast majority of people heal themselves,” said Ms. Hopkins.