UK’s monkeypox response is worthy of praise, says expert

The UK Health Security Agency is due to publish updated monkeypox figures on Monday (Alamy/PA)

The UK’s response to monkeypox should be praised, an expert in infectious diseases has said, as he noted that superspreader events are likely to be behind the rise in global cases.

Jeremy Farrar, the director of Wellcome, said “we have never seen anything like this before, with such a number of cases” in so many countries.