Family cluster of three cases of monkeypox imported from Nigeria to the United Kingdom, May 2021

Gemma Hobson; James Adamson; Hugh Adler; Richard Firth; Susie Gould; Catherine Houlihan; Christopher Johnson; David Porter; Tommy Rampling; Libuse Ratcliffe; Katherine Russell; Ananda Giri Shankar; Tom Wingfield

doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es.2021.26.32.2100745

Family cluster of three cases of monkeypox imported from Nigeria to the United Kingdom, May 2021

Gemma Hobson
, James Adamson
, Hugh Adler
, Richard Firth
, Susie Gould
, Catherine Houlihan
, Christopher Johnson
, David Porter
, Tommy Rampling
, Libuse Ratcliffe
, Katherine Russell
, Ananda Giri Shankar
, Tom Wingfield

Public Health Wales
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
UK Health Security Agency
University College Hospital
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Hospital for Tropical Diseases
World Health Organization

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Abstract

Monkeypox is a rare viral zoonotic disease. The causing virus belongs to the Orthopoxvirus genus that includes variola virus (the cause of smallpox), vaccinia virus (used in the smallpox vaccine), and cowpox virus. There are two distinct clades of monkeypox virus—Central African and West African. The first human cases were identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970 [1]. Outside of Africa, cases of human monkeypox infections have been documented in four countries: four cases the United Kingdom (UK) in 2018/2019, one case in Israel in 2018 and one case in Singapore in 2019 [2], 47 cases in the United States (US) in 2003 and one in 2021 [3]. We report on a family cluster of three recent cases of monkeypox in the UK associated with travel from Nigeria.

Original language	English
Journal	Eurosurveillance
Volume	26
Issue number	32
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.es.2021.26.32.2100745
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2021

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Family cluster of three cases of monkeypox imported from Nigeria to the United Kingdom, May 2021

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