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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Health Secretary ‘must take more action on monkeypox or it will become endemic’

PA Wire

LGBT+ groups from across the political spectrum have joined forces to demand the Government increase efforts to combat monkeypox or risk it becoming “endemic” in the UK.

The US on Thursday declared a public health emergency over the virus – which in the majority of the cases seen so far affects gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) – which followed the World Health Organisation last month calling it a global emergency.

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