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A group of 25 researchers from across the UK are set to develop tests for the virus - which will work in the same way as Covid swabs - following the nation's unprecedented monkeypox outbreak.
A top Chinese health official has warned the nation's citizens to avoid touching foreigners after the country recorded its first monkeypox case in a 29-year-old man who sex with men in Germany.
Officials recorded an average of 10 new monkeypox infections a day last week in the UK, down from 21 the week before. Cases have been receding since the start of the month.
A new trial of monkeypox jabs will deliver a fifth of the original dose. The new dosage, a fifth of the original, will be dished out in Manchester from today and then expanded to London.
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the first human-to-animal case had been detected in a greyhound in Paris who slept in the same bed as its gay owners.