“We are detecting more cases daily“, he added during an interview with the BBC quoted by the AFP news agency.
The UKHSA said the new figures would be published on Monday, after registering 20 cases on Friday.
Hopkins declined to confirm reports that one person was in intensive care, but said the outbreak was concentrated in urban areas, among gay or bisexual men.
“The risk to the general population is still extremely low at this time, and I think people need to be vigilant.“he said, adding that for most adults, the symptoms would be “relatively mild”.
The United Kingdom sounded the alarm on May 7, with a person who had recently traveled to Nigeria.
What are the symptoms and how is it transmitted?
Monkeypox can be transmitted through contact with skin lesions and droplets from a contaminated person, as well as through shared objects such as bedding and towels.
Its symptoms resemble, to a lesser degree, those observed in the past in subjects with smallpox: fever, headache, muscle and back pain during the first five days.
Rashes (on the face, palms of the hands, soles of the feet), lesions, pustules, and finally scabs then appear.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the symptoms last between 14 and 21 days, and there are no specific treatments against this infection.
Last Friday, The WHO issued an “epidemiological alert” for “monkeypox in non-endemic countries”.
According to that latest report, as of May 20, 2022, there were 11 countries that had reported cases: Australia, Germany, Belgium, Canada, France, the United States, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
For this reason, it issued a series of considerations in relation to “the identification of cases, isolation, identification and follow-up of contacts, clinical management and prevention and control of infections associated with care.”
Source: Ambito
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