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Matt Jackson

Monkeypox: World Health Organisation outlines most at-risk groups

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has outlined the groups of people most likely to catch monkeypox. The disease, which was first discovered in the 1950s, has seen a resurgence in recent months.

WHO bosses say the disease was originally discovered in a monkey, hence the name, only to later be discovered in a child in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970. Now, it is spreading across the globe, prompting the organisation to declare the spread a health emergency.

Dr Rosamund Lewis, technical lead for monkeypox at the WHO, said: "What's different now is that we're seeing cases in other countries that don't normally have monkeypox. And this is very unusual.

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