The One Mpox Clade 1b Case In Britain... Has Become... Three Cases: Same Household.

Not terribly surprising, but the health authorities will work feverishly now to contain it to the one household, and contacts of the same.

This is tough news, from the Beeb, indeed -- but there are vaccines to deploy, now (and they certainly are being so deployed -- in "rings of contacts" fashion):

. . .Two more cases of a new strain of the mpox virus have been detected in London, in household contacts of the first patient, health officials say.

The two individuals are now under specialist care at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

All three patients were infected with the Clade 1b variant of the virus, which was first detected in central Africa and appears to transmit more easily between people.

Prof Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), said mpox - formally known as monkeypox - could spread quickly within households and further cases were "not unexpected". . . .

Now you know. Onward -- to a very important day in the life of our fragile experiment in democracy, tomorrow -- and the days and nights following. Onward!

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