Category: monkey pox

Exclusive: English Primary School Closes Class Due to Monkeypox

A primary school class in England has been closed until the end of term, due to an outbreak of monkeypox in what appears to be a first in London. The Grand Avenue Primary and Nursery School, in Surrey, told parents in a letter seen by The Epoch Times that their child had been in contact…


Gender Self-Identification Could Be Muddling Monkeypox Surveillance Data in UK

The nature of the monkeypox outbreak might be muddled by gender self-identification, according to experts, as it emerged that the one percent of infected female individuals in the UK could in fact be biologically male. An Infectious Disease Behaviorist told The Epoch Times that while it’s true for accuracy that data on both sex and…


Experts: Monkeypox Pandemic in Europe and North America May Have a New Mode of Transmission

Recently, as the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be coming to an end in Europe and the United States, another infectious disease has emerged. Dozens of confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox have appeared on a large scale in more than a dozen countries. The disease has been rare outside of Africa in the past, and…