Nicola Sturgeon's Covid advisor, Professor Devi Sridhar, has issued a warning surrounding the recent cases of Monkeypox.
Devi, who appeared numerous times on TV throughout the pandemic, and is the Chair of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, has said that it is "worrying" that the cases are not originating from the same source.
Taking to Twitter to voice her opinion on the topic just days after contact tracing for the disease was extended to Scotland, Professor Sridhar said that while the vaccine protects patients from the disease, the worry is that new cases are not linked to the first cluster.
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Monkeypox is mainly spread by animals in West Africa but it can cause serious symptoms and even death.
Last week, Public Health Scotland issued a statement, saying: "We are liaising with the UK Health Security Agency over the contact tracing of a small number of individuals related to the Monkeypox case identified in England.
"This is a standard and precautionary exercise and the risk to the general public remains very low."
In a collection of tweets regarding the hot topic, Devi said: "As four more cases detected, important to ensure all contacts are traced & this doesn’t spread further. Monkeypox is similar to smallpox & causes a distinctive rash.
"Most of our nasty diseases come from animals -> we have to stop spillover happening from animals to humans otherwise we’ll face an increasing # of outbreaks. I talk about this in detail in my latest book Preventable.
"There is a vaccine that protects against Monkeypox- what’s concerning is that new cases aren’t related to first cluster. Means transmission between humans in UK & more cases out there. Tools are: tracing & isolation (break chains of transmission) & vaccines."
The link to Scotland began after three people, currently in quarantine after coming into close contact with someone with Monkeypox, reportedly flew from England to Glasgow, not knowing their colleague was infected.
