Monkeypox outbreak explodes across Europe as cases in Spain and Italy traced to island festival with... - The Sun

MONKEYPOX cases in Spain and Italy have been traced to an island festival attended by 80,000 revellers.

Cases of monkeypox in the UK have doubled in just a week after a total of 20 cases were reported.

Health officials in New York are investigating a potential case of monkeypox after a patient tested positive for the family of viruses associated with the rare illness, state health officials announced late Friday.

The unidentified patient is isolated and treated the case as positive while awaiting confirmation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New York City public health officials said earlier they were investigating two potential cases of monkeypox.

One of the cases was ruled out while the second one was positive for orthopoxvirus and had an illness consistent with monkeypox, the department said.

Meanwhile, Norway has begun searching for possible cases of monkeypox in the capital Oslo, the country's Institute of Public Health said on Saturday.

Swiss health officials have also reported the country's first case of monkeypox in a person living in the canton of Bern.

Bern's health authority said the patient had been treated as a walk-in case and was now isolated at home.

Israel on Saturday reported its first confirmed case of monkeypox, a man in his 30s who had returned from a trip in western Europe, according to the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center - Ichilov, where he is quarantined and in mild condition?