Two tourists with suspected monkeypox have been airlifted from Kefalonia in Greece using specialist isolation equipment. Just after 11pm on Saturday a Hellenic Air Force C-130 Hercules picked up two British tourists from an airport in Kefalonia.
A 29-year-old man from London and his girlfriend were transported from Kefalonia to Athens. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control is conducting a Rapid Risk Assessment.
A spokesman for Greece's National Health Care organization EODY said: “A suspected case of possible infection with monkeypox is being investigated. It is an English tourist who, together with his companion, asymptomatic, are to be transferred to Attikon hospital in order to be treated in negative pressure rooms.
