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2023年中考英语时事热点阅读专练热点126人与猴痘等病毒的抗争 背景阅读WHO expects greater spread of monkeypox (China Daily, 2022-05-23) The World Health Organization said it expects to identify more cases of monkeypox as it expands surveillance in countries where the disease is not typically found. As of Saturday, 92 confirmed cases and 28 suspected cases of monkeypox had been reported from 12 member states where the virus is not endemic, the UN agency said, adding it will provide further guidance and recommendations in the coming days for countries on how to mitigate the spread of monkeypox. Available information suggests that human-to-human transmission is occurring among people in close physical contact with cases who are symptomatic”, the agency said. Symptoms of monkeypox are usually mild and include headache, aching muscles, and exhaustion. The disease can also cause unsightly skin lesions that are susceptible to infection. The United Kingdom is braced for a sharp rise in monkeypox cases as an outbreak of the once-rare disease ramps up. Britain is seeing daily infections of the monkeypox virus that are unconnected to any travel to West Africa, where the disease is endemic, Susan Hopkins, chief medical adviser of the UK Health Security Agency said on Sunday. UK-based scientists said more infected people will be traced in the coming days, to add to the 20 found in the country so far. Claire Dewsnap, president of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV, told Sky News: There is going to be more diagnoses over the next week. How many is hard to say. What worries me the most is there are infections across Europe, so this has already spread.1 And she said it will be a massive job for the authorities to now trace everyone who has been in contact with someone who has the disease. The UK was the first country to identify cases in an outbreak that is now known to be impacting the European mainland, the United States, and Australia. In the past, monkeypox had been contained to central and west