A YOUNG child is being treated in intensive care after being struck down with monkeypox.
The youngster was yesterday getting specialist treatment in a London hospital as cases rose to 20 in the UK.
Prof Jonathan Ball, from Nottingham University, said: "The fact that we've got more than a handful of cases is very unusual. I'm surprised at the scale of human-to-human transmission."
The infection causes a fever, headaches, and a rash that creates large bulges of pus. The current strain has a death rate of about 1%.
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