Authorities announced the first case of the new form of mpox in the U.K. last week, saying the case was being treated at a London hospital after recently travelling to countries in Africa with ongoing outbreaks.
This week, the U.K. Health Security Agency said it had now identified three further cases who lived in the same household as the first patient, and are being treated at a hospital in London.
Britain recorded more than three thousand cases of another type of mpox during a 2022 outbreak that hit more than one hundred countries.
The new variant of mpox has also caused outbreaks in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
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