World health experts have warned we should prepare for deaths in Europe from monkeypox.
As the numbers infected rose to more than 1500 - 470 of them in the UK - Dr Catherine Smallwood, Monkeypox Incident Manager the World Health Organization (corr) in Europe warned: “Thankfully in the European Region we have had no deaths registered in the current outbreak but we should be prepared for those to happen because we do know that monkeypox can be a severe disease and we have some patients who have been hospitalised and it can lead to some severe outcomes in several population groups.”
She said those most at risk were young children, pregnant women and individuals who are immuno-suppressed.
