The UK Health Security Agency has said the infection can be transmitted through “close contact or contact with clothing or linens used by a person who has monkeypox”.
However, it added that the virus does not usually spread easily between people and the risk to the UK population “remains low”.
Symptoms of monkeypox include fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.
A rash can develop, often beginning on the face, then spreading to other parts of the body including the genitalia. The rash then changes and goes through different stages – and can resemble chickenpox – before finally forming a scab, which later falls off.
It may be time to suspend services until this gets under control. Every day this job gets scarier and more risks are popping up for us to combat.