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Monkeypox "doesn't spread particularly well", says Warwick University infectious disease expert

CWR Breakfast with Phil Upton

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Contacts of people with monkeypox are now being told to isolate for three weeks. The latest advice from the UK Health Security Agency also says they should get a smallpox vaccine. 20 cases of monkeypox have so far been identified here - with other outbreaks around the world. Dr. Mike Tildesley from Warwick University is an expert in the spread of infectious diseases, and has been speaking to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ CWR about the outbreak.

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