Objective To analyse the transmission dynamics of the monkeypox outbreak in the UK, declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in July 2022. This pre-symptomatic transmission could also be transmission before symptoms are detected rather than before clinical symptom onset because individuals could have lesions of which they are unawarethis might be more important for internal lesions. The first case was reported in Vienna, Austria, on May 22, 2022. However, the infection started to spread in 2017 to non-endemic regions such as North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Posterior distributions for mean and standard deviation of the serial interval for monkeypox. Throughout my . This sample size is small and relies on the completion of an optional case questionnaire and on the cases being linked by contact tracing. [10] The variola virus, the causative agent of smallpox, is also in this genus. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging that providers be "judicious" in prescribing the Some monitors saw community transmission taking place in the London area as of mid-May,[23] but it has been suggested that cases were already spreading in Europe in the previous months. 73% of cases reported contact with another human case while 27% had known contact with a wild animal. They discovered that the new cases were limited to small outbreaks which did not spread to the entire population. Onset to exposure, serial interval, and incubation period for 13 primary cases with monkeypox who had matching personal identifiable information or were matched but without such information. The DRC reported more than 18,000 confirmed or suspected monkeypox cases from 2010 to 2019, up from about 10,000 from 2000 to 2009, and more than 6,000 suspected cases in 2020. News stories, speeches, letters and notices, Reports, analysis and official statistics, Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports. If a substantial proportion of secondary transmission occurs before symptom onset, the implications will be that many infections cannot be prevented by isolating individuals with symptoms. Goodrich B, Gabry J, Ali I, et al. There's a monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain and other European countries. Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which does not spread easily . We used a previously described method22 to estimate the growth rate of monkeypox cases since the start of the outbreak in England. The growing number prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare monkeypox a global health emergency, as it did for COVID-19 in 2020. Setting Case questionnaires from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), United Kingdom. At the time of writing this, 57 cases have been found in the UK as well as a number more across the globe. We used the reporting date as it was robust to the (often long) reporting lags associated with specimen date. From the dataset we removed records with missing data for symptom onset and pseudo identifier number, as well as duplicates. The outbreak could spread beyond U.K. borders, the agency said, particularly because there appears . Additionally, the conclusions around the presence of pre-symptomatic transmission are supported by analysis of the relative shapes of both the incubation period and the serial interval distributions as well as individual level patient data. The two clades, the Congo Basin and Western African, show distinct epidemiological characteristics. UK Public Health Agencies. EXCLUSIVE: Top scientist calls for Britain to stockpile bird flu antivirals and PPE. The World Health Organization has said another 50 suspected cases are being investigated - without naming any. MPXV, causing the 2022 multi-country monkeypox outbreak, is equipped with a faster speed of microevolution and multi-patterns of transmission between humans and . We refer to this model as the double interval censoring corrected model (ICC). The global transmission of monkeypox from May 2022 in non-endemic countries necessitated further understanding of the transmission dynamics of the virus. How you get monkeypox Monkeypox can be passed on from person to person through: The maximum time before symptoms that transmission was detected for patients who could be linked through personal identifiable infection was four days. [33], On 30 August 2022, 3413 cumulative cases (3,279 confirmed and 134 highly probable cases) of human monkeypox up to (and including) 29 August were reported for the UK. But monkeypox is much less severe, with a fatality ratio of three to six per cent. The 2022 monkeypox outbreak in Austria is part of the larger outbreak of human monkeypox caused by the West African clade of the monkeypox virus. To obtain data on the incubation period we analysed completed case questionnaires and linked infected individuals to probable exposure dates. Joint ECDC-WHO Reginal Office for Europe monkeypox surveillance bulletin. 32 Total Deaths Global Cases 85,922 Total Cases At this time, data suggest that gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men make up the majority of cases in the current mpox outbreak. Design Contact tracing study, linking data on case-contact pairs and on probable exposure dates. The outbreak is unusual because although the UK has had sporadic cases of monkeypox before - seven from 2018 to 2021 - all previous cases were linked to travel from Nigeria. Recently, sporadic MPXV infections in several nonendemic countries have attracted widespread attention. DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.36993 Corpus ID: 252971060; Using Data From a Short Video Social Media Platform to Identify Emergent Monkeypox Conspiracy Theories @article{Zenone2022UsingDF, title={Using Data From a Short Video Social Media Platform to Identify Emergent Monkeypox Conspiracy Theories}, author={Marco Antonio Zenone and Timothy Caulfield}, journal={JAMA Network Open}, year . Between 6 May 2022 and 12 September 2022, 3552 cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in the United Kingdom.7 The international dispersion of the virus has resulted in the largest outbreak of monkeypox reported outside of Africa. For patients who could be linked through personally identifiable data, four days was the maximum time that transmission was detected before symptoms manifested. Data were extracted as of 1 August 2022, at which time 2746 people had been identified with monkeypox in the UK. All requests to access data are reviewed by the Office for Data Release and are subject to strict confidentiality provisions in line with the requirements of: the common law duty of confidentiality, data protection legislation (including the General Data Protection Regulation), Caldicott principles, the Information Commissioners statutory data sharing code of practice, and the national data opt-out programme. This is combined with case information recorded by local Health Protection Teams in the UKHSA national case management system. The monkeypox epidemic in the UK has been largely based in dense social networks with high contact rates.24 Particularly, transmission has been largely clustered around a subset of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men who engage in behaviours that put them at higher risk of infection and transmission. On 13 May 2022, the United Kingdom notified WHO of two laboratory confirmed cases and one probable case of monkeypox to WHO. As of 25 July 2022, both definitions were recognised in the UK as representing a case of monkeypox. We then applied a bayesian model correcting for double interval censoring (ICC)17 and a bayesian model correcting for double interval censoring, right truncation, and epidemic phase bias (ICRTC) to these data to estimate the serial interval and incubation period distributions of monkeypox. The international outbreak of monkeypox since May 2022 has produced more contemporary estimates of the incubation period with this mutated clade. UKHSA health protection teams store data collected during an incident in the HPZone, The line list contains a list of confirmed infected individuals in the UK obtained from test data (compiled and deduplicated) from UKHSA affiliated laboratories, National Health Service trust laboratories, and HPZone data, along with supplementary data from the case questionnaires. As of 1 August 2022, 650 people had completed questionnaires, 54 of whom had provided information on symptom onset date and had reported the date of last contact with a primary case, forming our incubation period cohort. Using the ICC (interval censoring corrected) model and the ICRTC (interval censoring right truncation corrected) model, fit to data using a gamma distribution for the serial interval and a Weibull distribution for the incubation period, with 95% credible interval. Cases of monkeypox infection were confirmed in England from 6 May 2022. The median serial interval was estimated to be shorter than the incubation period, which indicates considerably greater pre-symptomatic transmission than previously thought,23 and was validated by analysis of individual level data. 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[24], A large portion of those infected were believed to have not recently traveled to areas of Africa where monkeypox is normally found, such as Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as central and western Africa. Participants 2746 people with polymerase chain reaction confirmed monkeypox virus in the UK between 6 May and 1 August 2022. There may be mild symptoms, and it may occur . [11] Of the two types in humans, cladeII (formerly West African clade)[12] causes a less severe disease than the Central African (Congo basin) type. The corresponding author attests that all listed authors meet authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted. Infection time is rarely observed directly, so the generation time is generally approximated using the serial intervalthe time from symptom onset in a primary case (an individual with the index infection) to symptom onset in a secondary case (an individual who becomes infected by the primary case).9 Typical monkeypox symptoms are listed on the National Health Service website and include rash (for example, on the mouth, genitals, anus), high temperature, headache, and muscle aches.10 Serial interval and incubation period estimates are important for informing policy decisions around post-infection quarantine periods and post-contact isolation periods, respectively, as well as for understanding the dynamics of viral transmission, such as potential transmissibility before symptoms manifest.1112 Based on observational studies of monkeypox from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, estimates for the incubation period range from 4-14 days and for the serial interval from 8-11 days.1314 For the Western Africa clade that is currently circulating in the UK,15 early research suggests a mean incubation period of between 6.6 and 10.9 days.16 This estimate is, however, based on limited data and thus far no research pertaining to the serial interval has been released. This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. Cumulative parametric estimates for the distribution of the serial interval for monkeypox, fit to data from 79 patients using a gamma distribution. A Weibull distribution gave the best fit to the data for both models (see supplementary material A for results of the lognormal and gamma models). Mpox (formerly named monkeypox) situation update, as of 14 February 2023 Epidemiological update 15 Feb 2023 Translate this page Since the last update on 31 January 2023, and as of 14 February 2023, 18 mpox cases have been reported from two EU/EEA countries. The time derivative of the smoother ds(t)/dt is therefore the instantaneous growth rate, rs and doubling times can be interpreted as tD=log(2)/rs. We have assumed that transmission follows the direction of symptom onset dates. Monkeypox outbreak: epidemiological overview. Monkeypox is a rare viral illness that is seldom detected outside of Africa. On the day of the first reported case of monkeypox in the UK (6 May), we estimated that case numbers were doubling every 9.07 days (95% confidence interval 12.63 to 7.08). A week later monkeypox was identified in two more people, with no links to the first patient. Cases of monkeypox infection were confirmed in England from 6 May 2022. technical support for your product directly (links go to external sites): Thank you for your interest in spreading the word about The BMJ. We do not capture any email address. Pre-symptomatic transmission may be facilitated by specific types of high intensity interactions (eg, sexual contacts) where lower pre-symptomatic viral loads are infectious. The mean incubation period was estimated to be 7.6 days (95% credible interval 6.5 to 9.9) using the ICC model and 7.8 days (6.6 to 9.2) using the ICRTC model. As of December 2nd, Austria has confirmed a total of 327 cases. 2 The ongoing outbreak was first reported from the United Kingdom by the UK Health Security Agency on May 7, 2022. For lognormal the model was parameterised in terms of the log mean, 1, and log standard deviation, 2, parameters. The resident returned to the United Kingdom on 4May, creating the country's index case of the outbreak. The estimated mean serial interval was 8.0 days (95% credible interval 6.5 to 9.8) using the ICC model and 9.5 days (7.4 to 12.3) using the ICRTC model. From the perspective of public health policy, this transmission before the detection of symptoms is equivalent to pre-symptomatic transmission, as it concerns when individuals might become aware of their infection. Accessed August 3, 2022. https://monkeypoxreport.ecdc.europa.eu. To view this licence, visit nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3 or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: psi@nationalarchives.gov.uk. Data on monkeypox in children and adolescents aged <18 years are limited (1,2). For the ICC and ICRTC models, the corresponding estimates ranged from 1.8 days (95% credible interval 1.5 to 1.8) to 1.6 days (1.4 to 1.6) shorter at the 25th centile and 1.6 days (1.5 to 1.7) to 0.8 days (0.3 to 1.2) shorter at the median. TW is the study guarantor. Therefore, some of the identified pre-symptomatic transmission could have occurred after clinical symptom onset, but before patients were aware of their symptoms. 1 Sporadic. Monkeypox is a misnomer resulting from the fact that it was first discovered at the Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen in 1958, when outbreaks of a pox-like disease occurred in monkeys kept. Data are obtained from three types of questionnaires: A questionnaire administered by health practitioners, An anonymous self-completed questionnaire, All questionnaires are optional, and individuals are not required to complete all questions. Doubling times of cases declined from 9.07 days (95% confidence interval 12.63 to 7.08) on the 6 May, when the first case of monkeypox was reported in the UK, to a halving time of 29 days (95% confidence interval 38.02 to 23.44) on 1 August. Since June, there have been over 10,000 confirmed monkeypox cases in the U.S. [22] The origin of several of the cases of mpox in the United Kingdom is unknown. Updated at 9:51 a.m. on May 20, 2022. From this posterior distribution, credible intervals are calculated and reported for the mean, standard deviation, and cumulative distribution function. The origin is symptom onset date of the primary case, with the x axis showing number of days between subsequent events. Following the methods of Ward et al,22 this can be generalised to an epidemic that is not in an exponential phase, by replacing rt with a smooth function of time, s(t). The trace results for the shape and scale parameter from the from the Markov chain Monte Carlo sampler and the model code can be found here: https://github.com/OvertonC/Transmission-Dynamics-of-Monkeypox-in-the-United-Kingdom. Cases had the option of answering On what date did your illness begin?, In the 21 days (3 weeks) before first symptom onset did you have contact with anyone with suspected or confirmed monkeypox infection?, and Date of last contact with case. An exposure date was therefore defined as the last date an individual reported contact with a known case in the 21 days before symptoms manifested, and symptom onset was defined as the date symptoms manifested. Competing interests: All authors have completed the ICMJE uniform disclosure form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf and declare: no support from any organisation for the submitted work ; no financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous three years ; no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. Investigation into monkeypox outbreak in England: technical briefing 3. 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Participants 2746 people with polymerase chain . The maximum time that transmission was detected before symptoms manifested was nine days. **Address not yet confirmed. The person developed a rash on 29 April while in Nigeria and flew back to the United Kingdom, arriving on 4 May,[28] and presented to hospital later the same day. The identification of pre-symptomatic transmission might be indicative of changes to the primary route of transmission. Our analyses were specific to the dynamics of the outbreak. Investigation into monkeypox outbreak in England: technical briefing 1. This study was conducted for the purpose of informing the outbreak response to the monkeypox pandemic. Since the international epidemic began in May, the U.S. has recorded 201. Shaded area denotes span of time series where the serial intervals and incubation period distributions were estimated (6 May to 1 August 2022). We use some essential cookies to make this website work. This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. To investigate potential exposure dates that occurred before symptom onset in a primary case, which would suggest pre-symptomatic transmission, we linked data on the date of symptom onset in the primary case with exposure dates in their secondary contacts. 2020. For confirmed and highly probable cases in the UK, where gender information was available, 3,580 (98.6%) were men and 50 were women. These priors were chosen to be sufficiently informative to penalise unrealistic parameter combinations but specified with low precision to allow the data to maximally inform the estimates. Britain should be stockpiling . Monkeypox was first detected in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, The incubation period and serial interval have been estimated from observational studies, Since the international outbreak of monkeypox in May 2022 a study estimated a mean incubation period of 8.5 days; however, the sample size was small (n=18), This study found evidence of pre-symptomatic transmission of monkeypox, using contact tracing data and adjustments for interval censoring, right truncation, and epidemic phase bias, The maximum time that transmission was detected before symptoms manifested for infected individuals who could be linked through reliable personal identifiable information was four days. Monkeypox, a zoonotic disease, was identified in 1958 in monkeys showing signs of a poxvirus.1 The disease is caused by a virus belonging to the orthopoxvirus genus and was first detected in humans in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.2 The disease has since become endemic in that region and spread to other central and west African countries. The duration of symptoms is typically two to four weeks. When negative incubation periods were identified, we assumed that the patient was not infected by the named contact, as this is not possible. A high proportion of England cases were London residents (69%, 2,397 of 3,467 with location information). [4] Symptoms include fever, swollen lymph nodes, and a rash that forms blisters and then crusts over. Growth rates of cases by reporting date, when monkeypox virus was confirmed and reported to UKHSA, were estimated using generalised additive models. [36], Confirmed cases by countries in the United Kingdom during the 2022 outbreak (as of 12 July), The first three paragraphs an excerpt from, 20222023 monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom, Number of cases confirmed in constituent countries. In particular, symptom onset date is defined as the date patients noticed they had an infection. Dissemination to participants and related patient and public communities: We will disseminate the results to governmental organisations and agencies through official channels and publications. A survey of over 2000 Board seats of global health organizations shows that less than 3% of the seats are held by nationals of low-income countries [ 8 ]. Dont include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details. Data for both the serial interval and the incubation period are similarly distributed across the monkeypox outbreak in the UK, so temporal changes in reporting should affect both distributions comparably (see supplementary material C). The central estimate for the doubling time declined throughout the outbreak up to 9 July, when it reached a growth rate of about zero (infinite doubling time). Principles for monkeypox control in the UK: 4 nations consensus statement. To estimate the exponential growth rate, we need to assume an exponential structure to the data. Proportion of patients who reported being gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) and mean age of each study sample compared with the total set of patients. 10 out of 13 linked patients had documented pre-symptomatic transmission. Infection control precautions for contacts (vaccination, daily monitoring, staying home from work) were implemented. The 2022 multi-country monkeypox outbreak which is an international public health emergency has raised challenging issues for research. You have accepted additional cookies. The primary strength of this analysis is the large sample size, obtained from the UKHSA surveillance and contact tracing data, enabling the distributions to be estimated with reasonably narrow credible intervals. The 2022 monkeypox outbreak in the United Kingdom is part of the larger outbreak of human mpox caused by the West African clade (type) of the monkeypox virus. The outbreak has mainly been in gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men without documented history of travel to endemic countries. The limit of detection was 15.32 copies/L for F-RPA and 8.53 copies/L for VF-RPA, 3. The outbreak has mainly been in gay, bisexual, and men who have sex with men without documented history of travel to. The United Kingdom was the first country, outside of the endemic African areas, to experience an outbreak. The mean incubation period and mean serial interval were found to range from 6.6 to 9.2 days and 7.4 to 12.3 days, respectively, when adjusted for right truncation and epidemic phase bias. We defined a confirmed case as an individual with a positive polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test result for monkeypox virus, and a highly probable case as an individual with a positive PCR test result for orthopoxvirus. Design Contact tracing study, linking data on case-contact pairs and on probable exposure dates. Monkeypox, a zoonotic disease caused by an orthopoxvirus, results in a smallpox-like disease in humans. The World Health Organization says the outbreak is primarily spreading through sex. *The numbers in brackets show change since last report (26 September 2022). Instead, within our model we included estimated event times for each patient, z*[z1, z2] for z{e, s}, as an unobserved variable. 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