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Infectious Disease Specialist at the Royal College of Surgeons, Professor Sam McConkey, told Newstalk Breakfast what we can expect from the disease and how to ensure you don't catch it

COVID is here to stay, the country’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday.

About 200 confirmed and more than 100 suspected cases of Monkeypox have been detected so far outside of the countries where it usually spreads, a World Health Organization official said on Thursday, urging countries to increase surveillance for the infectious disease.

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

PROFESSOR Rowland Kao is the chair of veterinary epidemiology and data science at Edinburgh University. The biologist has done extensive research…

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

Cases of the rare infectious disease have suddenly started to spread across the globe in recent weeks

In light of the approaching winter months combined with the recent lifting of the national disaster act, South Africans have anxiously been watching an increase in COVID infections. The Conversation Africa spoke to infectious disease specialist Veronica Ueckermann about the current trajectory of the pandemic in the country.

This could become the largest outbreak of monkeypox in countries outside of Africa — but there's no need to panic, an infectious disease expert says.

Infectious disease was first recorded in 1970 but a surge in cases has led to the largest outbreak in Europe to date

One of the cases is being treated in a specialist infectious disease unit in London