Report of Monkeypox cases in 2018 in the United Kingdom

Abstract

Feedback from operational stakeholders who manage or respond to outbreaks is that they are often too busy to review literature or obtain relevant background information to assist them with acute response. Unlike a traditional analytical outbreak investigation report, Watching Briefs are intended as a rapid resource for public health or other first responders in the field on topical, serious or current outbreaks, and provide a digest of relevant information including key features of an outbreak, comparison with past outbreaks and a literature review.

Reemergence of Human Monkeypox and Declining Population Immunity in the Context of Urbanization, Nigeria, 2017–2020

“…States that reported >10 confirmed cases within a year were Rivers (36), Bayelsa (31), Lagos (19), and Delta (17) ( Table 3 ). Exported cases in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Israel had epidemiologic linkages to clusters in these states with the highest numbers of monkeypox cases ( 18 , 19 ). Most states with confirmed cases were concentrated in the South-West (3), South-South (6), and South-East (4) zones, with sporadic spread to the North-West and North-Central zones, which include highly populated states such as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasawara, and Plateau ( Table 3 ).…”

Reemergence of Human Monkeypox and Declining Population Immunity in the Context of Urbanization, Nigeria, 2017–2020

“…States that reported >10 confirmed cases within a year were Rivers (36), Bayelsa (31), Lagos (19), and Delta (17) ( Table 3). Exported cases in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Israel had epidemiologic linkages to clusters in these states with the highest numbers of monkeypox cases (18,19). Most states with confirmed cases were concentrated in the South-West (3), South-South (6), and South-East (4) zones, with sporadic spread to the North-West and North-Central zones, which include highly populated states such as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nasawara, and Plateau (Table 3).…”

Estimation of local transmissibility in the early phase of monkeypox epidemic in 2022

“…More recently, an outbreak of monkeypox in Nigeria in 2017 [ 7 ] led to the importation of human monkeypox cases into various countries around the world, including the United Kingdom, Israel, and Singapore [ 8 ]. In the United Kingdom, two epidemiologically unrelated cases were imported into Cornwall and Blackpool [ 9 ], with a secondary case in a nurse that attended the Blackpool patient [ 10 ]. A few years later in 2021, a family cluster in the United Kingdom was identified—also related to the ongoing Nigerian 2017 outbreak [ 9 , 11 ].…”