Monkeypox -- United Kingdom
Patients who visited their GP the same day as a woman later diagnosed with monkeypox have been offered the smallpox vaccine. The health care worker, reportedly from Fleetwood, is understood to have visited her doctor at Mountview Practice in Dock Street in the port town before being moved to the north east and quarantined.
She was the 3rd person to be diagnosed with the tropical disease in the UK, after treating the 2nd, who had recently visited Nigeria, at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. The
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