Mpox outbreak: technical briefings
Technical briefing documents on the investigation into cases of mpox in England.
Applies to England
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Technical briefing 4 includes limited data on cases confirmed UK-wide, where available.
These documents investigate a rise in monkeypox cases in the UK since May 2022. The current outbreak is the first time that the virus has been passed from person to person in England where travel links to an endemic country have not been identified.
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Added technical briefing 9 and underlying data.
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Corrected order of graphs in briefing 6.
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Amended date of Figure 1 to 4 August in briefing 5 and accompanying spreadsheet.
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Amended figures and associated data for reports 3 and 4.
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Updated section 3.2 Biological implications of the genome findings in Technical briefing 1.
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