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Matthew Dresch & Sonia Sharma

Monkeypox patient hits out at 'farcical' contract tracers after being struck by virus

A monkeypox patient has claimed it took almost two weeks for contact tracers to reach out to him after he caught the virus.

James McFadzean, from London, said he suffered a fever, exhaustion and back pain after catching the rapidly-spreading infection.

The 35-year-old added that the UK Health Security Agency only contacted him on Tuesday - nearly two weeks after he was first diagnosed with monkeypox.

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