Proportion of people protected has fallen substantially in decades since smallpox vaccination ended
The unprecedented surge in monkeypox cases in the UK and beyond was an outbreak waiting to happen after the end of global smallpox vaccination more than 40 years ago, scientists say.Security Agency announced a further 14 cases in England on Tuesday, bringing the total to 70, and one further patient in Scotland. No cases have been identified in Wales or Northern Ireland.
Until this year only a handful of cases of monkeypox had ever been spotted in the UK, all linked to travel from Nigeria. Since the first UK case of 2022 was announced on 7 May, nearly 300 suspected or confirmed cases have come to light in at least 16 countries. Graham Medley, a professor of infectious disease modelling at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said there was unlikely to be the same “explosive growth” of infections into the general population that was witnessed with Covid. But he said the outbreak could continue for several months as contact tracing slows but does not stop transmission.
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