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Originally Posted by arista
Monkeypox contact tracing extended to Scotland
[Public Health Scotland has confirmed it is helping
to trace contacts of a monkeypox patient
who was identified in England.
The patient had recently travelled to Nigeria,
where they were believed to have caught the virus.
A "small number of individuals" in Scotland
are now reported to be in quarantine after
being identified as contacts of the patient.
The move was said to be a
"standard and precautionary exercise".]
[And Public Health Scotland said the
risk to the wider public remained very low.]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61435476
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It's not a virus. Its bullous impetigo caused by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and requires antibiotics. It is very contagious but not usually serious.
I just hope the government isn't going to gaslight us into believing this is another deadly virus.