Europe's disease control body has urged countries to prepare contact tracing, vaccines, treatments and diagnostics as ways to combat an increasing number of monkeypox cases.
In the U.K. a further 36 cases have been identified, bringing the total number of monkeypox infections to 56, according to the U.K. Health Security Agency on Monday. In the EU, 67 cases have been identified since May 15 in nine countries: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
While the numbers remain relatively low, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) recommended on Monday that countries focus on quick identification, management, contact-tracing and reporting of new monkeypox cases.
Countries should update their contact-tracing mechanisms and diagnostic capacity for orthopoxviruses (which includes monkeypox), the ECDC said in a statement, and review the availability of smallpox vaccines, antivirals and...
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