New cases continue to fall, thanks to vaccines and vigilance, says a top expert.
The UK's monkeypox situation is looking "very positive" with cases continuing to fall, says one of Britain's leading infectious disease modellers.
The UK has recorded more than 3,500 cases, but in recent weeks there have been fewer than 100 new infections.Prof Ferguson, who was at the forefront of the UK's Covid response and is currently advising the government on monkeypox, told the BBC that experts are still debating why cases started declining in midsummer.
There had been worries that monkeypox might become endemic, meaning it would be ever-present in the UK and other countries which were not used to seeing cases before this year. Since May there have been more than 65,000 cases reported worldwide and the World Health Organisation called it a global public health emergency in July.
He says the best way to ensure that cases stay low is to continue to vaccinate those at risk, and maintain surveillance. Because prevalence of the virus is comparatively lower to the peak of the outbreak, and it's dominating less of our conversations, sexual health workers I've spoken to are concerned that vigilance around symptoms might also slip.
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