Following the diseases' prevalence within those who are gay, bisexual, or other men who have sex with men, a senior health source has warned that the inference that monkeypox is a sexually transmitted disease should be extinguished, the M.E.N reports. READ MORE: Dad who was 'showered in asbestos dust' at factory dies from lung cancerĪ handful of cases - less than five - have been found in the North West, according to the UKHSA. They have also described the disease as self-limiting, and that most people will recover within a few weeks. The department of health says the virus can be passed on through close person-to-person contact, or contact with items used by a person who has monkeypox. Medical practitioners are now required by law to share information with the Public Health Agency if they are aware that a person they are attending has monkeypox or if they have reasonable grounds for suspecting so. It comes as more than 300 cases have so far been found across the UK as of Monday (June 6). Monkeypox cases have been detected in the North West for the first time as the virus was deemed a 'notifiable disease'.
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