Monkeypox surfaces in three cases the U.K. What you need to know about the rare virus
Officials in the U.K. say a health worker has contracted monkeypox, the third patient in the country to be infected with the rare virus in the past month.
Now there are three.
Officials in the U.K. announced Wednesday that a health worker in Blackpool, in northwestern England, had contracted monkeypox, the third patient in the country to be infected with the rare virus in the past month. The health care worker was infected by a patient who was recently cared for at the hospital.
Britain’s first-ever case of monkeypox was reported on Sept. 8, in a man from Nigeria who had been at a naval base in Cornwall. Only three days later a second imported case was spotted, in a man who had also recently returned from travel
