2 cases confirmed in Ireland to date
The number of cases of monkeypox in Britain has reached 200.
Health experts are continuing to find out more about how the condition - which causes small lesions on the skin - is passed on.
Two cases have been confirmed in Ireland.
David Denning, a professor of infectious diseases at the University of Manchester, says inoculations against smallpox could work as a deterrent in some people:

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