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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joe Sommerlad and Thomas Kingsley

Monkeypox: What we know about rare virus as infection confirmed in England

Courtesy of CDC/Getty

A person in England has been diagnosed with the rare viral infection monkeypox.

The patient, one of only a handful of people in the UK ever known to have had the disease, is receiving specialist care in a hospital in London.

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