The UK Health Security Agency today announced that contact tracing has linked monkeypox cases with gay bars, saunas and the use of dating apps in the UK and abroad .
Dr. David Heymann, former World Health Organization (WHO) emergencies department head, revealed that the current monkypox outbreak was traced back to two LGBT festivals in Europe. "We know [.]
Professor David Heymann, a former director-general for the WHO said the current global outbreak may date back to a handful of isolated cases in the UK in 2018.
Britons were routinely offered the smallpox jab until the 1970s, when the scheme was deemed no longer necessary after the virus was beaten into submission.