The Latest Breaking News from David Heymann

Large proportion of cases identified in gay and bisexual community

Outbreak is ‘significant’ but risk to population remains low, say officials

Dr David Heymann, the former head of WHO's emergencies department, told The Associated Press that the leading theory on the spread of the disease was sexual transmission at raves held in Spain and Belgium

While the monkeypox outbreak is unusual, it remains “containable” and limited, the WHO says, and it is convening further meetings.

A leading adviser to the World Health Organisation has described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be explained by sexual behaviour at two recent raves.

It comes as cases of the virus have been reported in more than a dozen countries

A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be explained by sexual behaviour at two recent raves in Europe.

Scientists believe superspreader events may be behind sudden outbreak in cases

THE first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Scotland, as the total grows across the UK.

A doctor who chairs a World Health Organization expert group has described the unprecedented outbreak of the rare disease monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that might be explained by risky sexual behavior at two recent mass events in Europe

A virus causing patients fever, rash, and exhaustion has reached three more countries. A man in Vienna was taken to hospital with sores on his face.