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Steve Houghton & David Flett

Monkeypox outbreaks in Europe linked to fetish festival and sauna superspreader event

Separate Monkeypox outbreaks in Europe have been linked to a fetish festival and a sauna superspreader event.

It comes as a total of 20 cases of the viral condition, which is not normally found outside of Africa, have now been confirmed in the UK - with other incidences of the disease also being recorded across Western Europe, as well as in Australia, the US and Canada.

In Spain, the majority of the country's 30 people who have been diagnosed with monkeypox are said to have contracted it from a specific sauna in the nation's capital city, as reported in The Daily Mirror. Health officials have also claimed that a "notable proportion" of the people infected in the UK and Europe are gay or bisexual men, according to the Madrid region's health chief Enrique Ruiz Escudero.

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