A patient is being treated in isolation at a specialist hospital in London after being diagnosed with the monkeypox virus after flying into the UK. It is understood the patient from England caught the virus in Nigeria before returning to the UK.
The disease is rare and most people recover in a few weeks, the UK Health Security Agency said. And as it does not spread easily between people, the risk to the general pubic is very low.
Monkeypox can be caught from infected wild animals in parts of west and central Africa. It's thought to be spread by rodents, such as rats, mice and squirrels. Initial symptoms include fever, headache, muscle aches, backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills and exhaustion.
