The U.K. health authorities have confirmed a case of monkeypox, which is a virus passed from infected animals such as rodents to humans, in someone with a recent travel history to Nigeria where they are believed to have caught it.

• Monkeypox is a rare viral infection that does not spread easily between people.
• This is usually a mild “self-limiting illness” and most people recover within a few weeks.
• In the year 1970, the first human case of Monkeypox virsu was recorded in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).