Second outbreak of monkeypox occurred outside of Western and Central Africa in the United Kingdom in 2018. Two of the cases had recent travel to Nigeria where there is an ongoing monkeypox outbreak since 2017. Coordinated response activities by both Nigeria and UK ensured no further transmission of monkeypox occurred in the UK. Re-emergence of monkeypox in UK and impetus for introduction of smallpox vaccine which is cross-protective for monkeypox are low.

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The launch issue of Global Biosecurity features a smallpox theme, with papers on a modelled smallpox simulation, a White Paper providing a framework for prevention, mitigation and response, and papers on smallpox antivirals and vaccines. The issue contains outbreak and public health surveillance research, a range of first responder perspectives, watching briefs on monkeypox and EV D68, research on hospital malware attacks, and commentary on human germline editing.

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