The recent monkeypox outbreak is a reminder that our interconnected world has its dangers
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These cases show how our modern, mobile, interconnected world, which enables us to travel quickly from continent to continent, does make countries across the globe more vulnerable to occasional imported infections.
By Jimmy Whitworth
The report of two apparently unconnected cases of monkeypox in the UK within one week was a surprise for public health officials. No cases of the virus had been reported previously in the UK, or even more widely in Europe.
The two cases had both travelled to the ...
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