Scotland has 13 confirmed instances of monkeypox, public well being officers say.
Public Well being Scotland (PHS) confirmed on Tuesday that the instances had been recognized in laboratories.
It's understood the vast majority of instances are amongst adults recognized to be homosexual, bisexual, or different males who've intercourse with males (GBMSM) and report latest European journey inside 21 days of experiencing signs.
PHS mentioned it has not recognized a typical hyperlink among the many instances however investigations are persevering with.
People are receiving care and call tracing is constant.
It comes after world well being consultants warned that we must always put together for deaths in Europe from monkeypox because the numbers contaminated rose to greater than 1,500 - 470 of them within the UK.
Dr Catherine Smallwood, Monkeypox Incident Supervisor the World Well being Group (corr) in Europe warned: “Fortunately within the European Area we now have had no deaths registered within the present outbreak however we needs to be ready for these to occur.
"We do know that monkeypox could be a extreme illness and we now have some sufferers who've been hospitalised and it may possibly result in some extreme outcomes in a number of inhabitants teams.”
She mentioned these most in danger had been younger kids, pregnant girls and people who're immuno-suppressed.
Smallwood added: “Because the virus continues to unfold and have an effect on completely different inhabitants teams we'll doubtless see some extreme instances.”
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